Now the focus is on making sure people abide by these laws. «To save more lives, we need better law enforcement,» Dr. Gundo Weiler, the World Health Organization`s representative in the Philippines, said earlier. The Highway Patrol Group is a highway patrol with national coverage. Its task is to enforce road safety tasks and supervise local police forces in the enforcement of traffic laws. It also supports the Bureau of Land Transport, formerly the Bureau of Land Transport. In addition, the HPG also enforces driving licences and vehicle registrations as well as regulations relating to public bodies. [1] Note that a traffic police officer may arrest you if you violate any of the official signs. However, only officers of the Land Transportation Authority (LTO) and their deputies can confiscate their licenses under Republic Act (RA) 4136 or our Land Transportation and Traffic Code. For potential terrorist vehicles that are not on a hot list, Vaxtor is always able to detect abnormal driving behaviors to pre-alert traffic control officers to investigate/intercept suspicious vehicles. TomTom`s 2019 Traffic Index, which assesses congestion in cities around the world, showed that Manila has the second worst traffic congestion of the 416 cities studied worldwide, with a congestion level of 71%. The report says Filipinos lost 10 days and 17 hours late during peak hours during the year.

Vaxtor`s intelligent traffic monitoring software is able to count vehicles at junctions and display the «soon to be congested» traffic trend. The Highway Patrol Group returned to EDSA in 2015 and was tasked with enforcing traffic laws as traffic conditions on the Manila subway artery were deteriorating at the time. This serves to expand MMDA traffic cops and LGU police officers. HPG`s last patrol at EDPB was in 1994. [3] Flieger`s teammate, senior officer Robert Susanj, recounted how he worked with local law enforcement agencies in the Philippines for six months to train officers on the basics of speed enforcement. During this period, it was «necessary to set up a system to enforce speed, train trainers and start training in the field». Traffic police learned best practices through this training program; the latest speed measurement technologies; how to prepare speed checkpoints; and how to perform speed monitoring safely. «Stopping vehicles at high speed is dangerous, and there are no shortcuts,» Susanj noted. Officers have also been trained in the use of various speed measuring devices, he added. Susanj stressed that physical policing goes hand in hand with the use of automated enforcement measures such as speed cameras. «The automated application is very effective in `black spots` where traffic is higher.

Maintaining physical order can also help,» he said. Not only for the application of speeding, but also to check drivers for other offenses – [related] risk factors such as drinking and driving. The Ministry of Health ranks road accidents as one of the leading causes of death among children – about two children die every day in road accidents. Vaxtor`s video analytics software for vehicle attributes automatically detects not only the different Filipino license plate formats, but also the make, model, and color of the vehicle. This gives law enforcement the technology to locate suspicious details of the vehicle, even if only a partial license plate is captured at the crime scene. According to the requirements of the customer`s solution, Vaxtor has developed an «intelligent traffic recognition and enforcement system» based on the conversion of existing surveillance cameras into multifunctional smart IoT devices that perform: general surveillance, license plate recognition, vehicle make/model/color recognition, speed alerts, vehicle counting, «hot list» warnings and traffic violation warnings. In 2019, traffic accidents in the Philippines claimed the lives of 13,000 people. That`s about one for every 8,300 Filipinos. There are many factors contributing to these sobering statistics, but the positives in this area are the new laws that deal with speeding, drink-driving, and wearing helmets or seat belts, among other things. It should be noted, however, that traffic police officers may confiscate their licences in the following exceptional situations: (1) the driver has been involved in a traffic accident; (2) the driver has accumulated at least three unsolved offences; or (3) the driver was arrested for, among other things: (a) allowing another person to use the driver`s licence; (b) broken seals of the taximeter; (c) counter-current driving; (d) driving under the influence of alcohol or prohibited drugs; (e) a false or invalid driving licence; f) illegal or unauthorized countercurrent; (g) illegal distribution of markings/labels/stickers; (g) speeding; and (h) reckless driving.

Therefore, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) traffic controllers cannot confiscate your licenses. These MMDA enforcement officers can apply for your licenses if you break a traffic rule, but they cannot confiscate them if they are not authorized by the LTO or a local government entity. In MMDA v. Dante Garin (GR 130230, 15 April 2005), the Supreme Court emphasized that Republic Act No. 7924, which created the MMDA, does not confer on the MMDA the police or legislative power to make regulations; and that the duties of the MMDA are administrative in nature. The Trafcon was a unit of the Philippine Mounted Police, which in turn was part of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.