Police to re-implement 'log-in log-out' scheme for taxi drivers
A “log-in log-out” scheme for taxi drivers will again be implemented by the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) to avert criminalities victimizing taxi drivers.
The precautionary measure is in line with the onset of the lean months where robbery cases as well as crimes against property are observed to rise up.
ICPO city director Sr. Supt. Wesley Barayuga said they are looking at implementing at the soonest time possible the scheme which requires the taxi drivers to log in and log out with the nearest police stations when transporting passengers going out of the city proper.
Barayuga said, as in previous experience, the log-in log-out scheme has been effective in curbing crimes perpetrated against the taxi drivers.
With the “log-in log-out” scheme the police could also check the passengers if they carry deadly weapons.
A meeting between the association of taxi drivers and the city's top police officials should have been made the other day but was postponed after no representative appeared for the association. Said meeting would be set on another day.
In the “log-in and log-out” scheme, taxi drivers are asked to drop by the nearest police station and inform the police the destination of their passengers. Said information will then be entered by the police on duty to their log book. When the taxi returns from the destination where the passenger was brought the driver is also required to pass by the police station where he logged in to inform that he has already returned.
The “log-in log-out” scheme was imposed years ago to combat the rising number of hold-up incidents victimizing taxi drivers. There were unlucky drivers who lost their lives after they fought with their assailants.
No less than Land Franchising and Regulatory Board Regional Director Porferio Clavel supports the plan of the police to once again effect the “log-in and log-out” system to protect both the passengers and the drivers themselves.