OZAMIZ
CITY--THE Police Regional Office (PRO) in Northern Mindanao has implemented a
color coding scheme as one of its devised plan of action in the conduct of
checkpoints amid the Covid-19 health crisis.
Police
B/Gen. Rolando Anduyan, PRO-Northern Mindanao director, said the color coding
scheme was included in the guidelines of quarantine checkpoint for Covid-19.
These
colors are Red, Blue and White which are to be used in identifying the
personalities passing the checkpoint
Anduyan
added this will help officers to man checkpoints easily in inspecting motorists
and passengers and avoid lessen the traffic congestion and those unrequired delays.
Anduyan
explained that the Quarantine control points personnel will tag Color Red if
the personnel with COVID-19 symptoms may be on the way to a hospital, the Blue
color will be tagged if the person belong to Person Authorized to go out with
pertinent documents while White will be tagged if the personnel is clear from
COVID-19 and not authorized to go out.
These
colors should be placed on the right portion of the wind shield of the vehicles
for easier identification and ensure an unhampered and unobstructed travel of
basic essentials and essentials goods.
It
was noticed in the region, the province of Misamis Oriental is visibly
implementing it based on the inspection made by the Red teams.
The
police official clarified that regarding the implementation of color coding,
that the said scheme was not used region-wide. It is implemented region-wide
but still needs fine tuning since other provinces and cities still did not
comply with such strategy.
“Only
Misamis Oriental and Occidental were religiously implementing it as adapted by
their local government units," said Police Lt./Col. Mardy Hortillosa II,
PRO-Northern Mindanao spokesperson.
Anduyan
assured the public they will continue to formulate, assess, revise and
supervise the strategies in the conduct of law and order to prevent and contain
the Covid-19 spread as he asked the public to work together and help the
government in this fight. (MICHAEL MEDINA)
