The City Traffic Transportation and Management Office will implement an Identification Card system to all public utility vehicles in the city.
CTTMO Chief Dionisio Abude said that prior to this, all PUV drivers will undergo a seminar about the new laws and regulation of the traffic code of the city and the Land Transportation Office.
The ID system is also under the Traffic code of the city.
Under Article XXIV, section 163 “No person shall drive a PUV with approve franchise plying with the territorial jurisdiction of the City of Davao without bearing an official identification card issued by the CTTMO and shall be displayed conspicuously inside the vehicle.”
Abude said that all PUV drivers will be required to attend the seminar; however, they will prioritize the taxi drivers for the entire week.
“We are targeting to release 2,000 IDs for the taxi drivers within the week, we hope to cover all taxi drivers before the Araw ng Davao, but since the event is fast approaching we will target 2,000 taxi drivers first,” he said.
500 taxi drivers are expected to attend the first batch of seminar on Tuesday Morning at the Davao City Recreational Center, while another 500 will attend the afternoon session.
On Thursday, another set of 1,000 taxi drivers will also attend the seminar.
“We will release the IDs after they attend the seminar,” Abude said. “We will be discussing to them all the traffic rules just to review their knowledge on the traffic code of the city and the laws under the LTO as well.”
Meanwhile, Public safety and Security Command Center (PSSCC) chief Benito De Leon said that the ID system is one of the actions of the city government to the alleged modus of some taxi drivers wherein they spray some kind of a sleeping inhalant to their passengers.
“This is part of the action of the City,” he said.
During the City Peace and Order Council (CPOC) meeting here last month, De Leon brought up the issue to the authorities and they decided to implement the ID system.
