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Security Advisory on PNP Checkpoints. Some helpful tips when flagged down at checkpoints.
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Some helpful tips when flagged down at checkpoints • Upon approach of checkpoint especially at night, slow down, dim car headlights and turn on cabin lights. If pulled over, open window three fourths down. Greet AFP/PNP officer, note name of the officer and maintain contact. • Lock all doors; talk to AFP/PNP officers only on one side of your vehicle. Ordinary/routine questions may be asked. Be courteous but firm with answers. • Only visual search is legal. You are not obliged to open glove compartment, trunks or bags.
Some helpful tips when flagged down at checkpoints • Never step out of your vehicle. You should not be forced to alight unless there is probable causeto believe that your vehicle has been involved in a crime. • Keep your driver's license and car registration handy, within reach and ready for inspection when requested by authorities. • Be ready to use your cell phone at any time. Speed dialemergency numbers.
Guidelines on Checkpoints • The checkpoints must be established in well lighted areas with visible sign boards . • It must be done in a manner that will impose minimum inconvenience upon person/s to be searched such that the rights of the persons are not violated. • PNP/AFP personnel manning the checkpoints must be in complete uniform with nameplate and led by an officer with a rank of at least a Lieutenant (AFP) or Police Inspector (PNP). • Valid search on vehicles must be authorized by a search warrant issued by an appropriate authority.
Warrantless searches can only be conducted on the following circumstances: • Moving vehicles and the seizure of evidences in plainview, As long as the vehicles are neither searched northeir occupants subjected to a body search, and the inspection of the vehicle is merely limited. • Vehicles where occupants appear nervous, suspiciousor exhibit unnatural reaction. • If the officer conducting the search has reasonable or probable cause to believe that either the occupant/s is a law offender or that the instrumentalities or evidences pertaining to the commission of a crime can be found in the vehicle to be searched. • On the basis of prior confidential information whichare reasonably corroborated by other attendant matters.
Guidelines on Checkpoints • PNP Police Operation Procedures shall be strictly observedparticularly in situations where search, seizure and arrests are made including the use of reasonable force against violent aggression. • Any person arrested must be turned-over to the nearest policestation, together with the arrest orders and receipt of confiscated items. The police chief /detachment commander shall conduct an investigation and submit a report to the provincial or city prosecutor for preliminary investigation. • All arrests shall be immediately and chronologically recordedin a logbook.
Some helpful tips when flagged down at checkpoints • In case that your rights are violated, you may call Commission on Human Rights Hotline 377-2477. • On abuse of PNP personnel manning the checkpoints in Metro Manila, you may call 838 -3354 / 838 -3203 (NCRPO)