Forty-seven personnel of the Discipline Zone team have been placed under the operational control of the City Traffic Management Office to focus on the apprehension of violators and pedestrian control.
Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo approved the reorganization of the Discipline Zone Program to provide additional manpower to manage traffic congestion in the intersections due to the newly opened diversion and city roads and the use of pedestrian lanes.
Assistant City Administrator and Human Resources Head Dr. Dinno Depositario said that concerned officials including TMO-OIC Danilo Atillo, and Discipline Zone-OIC Elmer Melon had deliberated and concurred with the decision of the Mayor.
With the additional manpower, the City TMO will intensify the apprehension of the offenders of illegal parking, illegal vending, smoking in public, panhandling, littering, jaywalking, mendicancy, among other violations of applicable local ordinances or national laws.
Meanwhile, other personnel of the Discipline Zone Project were also transferred to various offices: five personnel to the Special Enforcement Unit; three personnel as Barangay Police Security Officers, nine personnel to the City Disaster Risk-Reduction & Management Office, and four personnel to the City Economic Enterprise Department-Market Task Force.
The Discipline Zone Project was launched in 2018 to enforce traffic laws and ordinances along the national highway from barangay Buñao in the north to barangay Calindagan in the south. (PR)
