Police examine automobiles at a Fee on Elections checkpoint alongside Tapuac Highway in Dagupan Metropolis, Pangasinan, on Jan. 12, at the beginning of the election gun ban. Now further precautions are being given to the general public with the implementation of the three-day cash ban, whereby carrying greater than P50,000 in money with marketing campaign supplies is prohibited from Might 10 to Might 13. — INQUIRER FILE PHOTO / WILLY LOMIBAO
ILOILO CITY – Heightened checkpoints in varied areas in Western Visayas are anticipated efficient Saturday with the implementation of the three-day “cash ban.”
“For the primary time, the fee will implement the so-called cash ban. It’s already prohibited to be in possession of cash greater than P500,000 along with marketing campaign supplies. That might already be thought-about for functions of vote shopping for,” Fee on Elections (Comelec) Regional Election Director Lawyer Dennis Ausan stated in an interview Friday afternoon.
Exempted from the ban are these whose nature of job pertains to the possession of big quantities of cash, resembling a cashier or treasurer. Nonetheless, they’ve to indicate proof of their job.
“Anticipate that within the subsequent days, there can be extra checkpoints, and that’s a technique of implementing this cash ban,” he stated.
Cash ban
Ausan stated personnel of the Philippine Nationwide Police have their guide and protocols to adjust to the conduct of checkpoints.
He stated previously, there have been even these caught in checkpoints with packing containers of envelopes containing cash and prepared for distribution, however as a result of there was no cash ban throughout that point, they had been launched.
“We remind our candidates, political events, together with their leaders and supporters, that vote shopping for is an election offense and never simply days earlier than Election Day. However in a cash ban, a big quantity would already be unlawful. The very fact alone that you’ve got P500,000 coupled with different marketing campaign supplies, that’s already one thing and a case can already be initiated towards you,” Ausan stated.
He additionally reminded the general public that the two-day liquor ban will begin on Sunday.
Checkpoints
Police Regional Workplace (PRO) 6 (Western Visayas) spokesperson Lt. Col. Arnel Solis stated they’ve already knowledgeable personnel conducting checkpoints to be vigilant in checking automobiles, though they’re restricted to plain view.
“Nonetheless, since our personnel are alert and vigilant, they’d see any suspicious actions of passengers,” he stated in an interview on Saturday.
For the reason that begin of the election interval on Jan. 12, Solis stated they’ve performed about 33,500 Comelec checkpoints throughout the area.
Some are completed solely by the PNP, whereas others are collectively performed with the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine Coast Guard.
“We’re directed to have at the least one Comelec checkpoint a day. However there are tendencies that we are going to enhance the variety of Comelec checkpoints. The efforts are properly coordinated by our chiefs of police with election officers,” he stated.
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