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Yesterday evening around 6pm there was a checkpoint on the south highway between Bacong and Dumaguete, they call it a checkpoint but it really was only a place where all the illegal motorbikes parked before it (north & south) and partially blocked the road.
I have no police training but i could deduce the reason they did not want to go through was that the the bike was somehow illegal, the PNP did not appear to have seen this or the traffic chaos it was causing as they did not walk the few meters it would have taken to arrest or move on these people.
Why do they bother, next time just stay in the police station and stop f$%king up the traffic for no good reason.

 

If its anything like Canada then they would be using the excuse that they are looking for drink drivers when they pull everyone over in a Stop Check to ask: License and registration please, have you been drinking tonight, and is everyone wearing their seatbelt? Oops big fine for that last one.

 

Some years ago, 2012 I seem to Remember, we had an LTO Chief (Roland Ramos) who was getting really into this, Unfortunately he upset The Capitol Building by Citing Divers on their way to or From Work and even Official Vehicles. To me he was doing the Job he was paid to do yet Got Moved to Bohol as his Reward. I wonder just how far the local Enforcement actual is allowed to go before the wrong people [sic] get caught up in it.

 

It is all a just a SHOW... nothing really happens.

One time I was stopped at check point. I do not avoid them as I am always fully legal, and most times after seeing you a few times they wave you through. When the officer asked for my registration, I said yes, but since it in the area of the battery it will take some time to get it out. After you look at it, I suggested strongly, we will walk south down the highway 50 meters and check all the bikes parked there, The we will walk North and look at those bikes. The Officer then suggested that my bike was legal and I could go.

The point is there are not there to confiscate bikes, or arrest, or ticket... they are just there so they look like they are doing something... better than getting caught sleeping in a office chair.

In Bacong most bikes are not properly licensed and the drivers do not have drivers licenses. They just do not go into Dumaguete very often. How many times have you seen a young WIDE eyed scared-to-death motorcycle driver, with their mother on the riding on the back. The drivers are scared to death because they are probably way less than 16 years old, not licensed and do not know what they are doing. They are very dangerous because you do not know what "knee jerk reaction move" they will make when confronted with any driving situation. Just keep you eyes out in those situations.

 

I was replying to CHMacQueens comments on the US. I think his information may be out of date.

 

I went by the checkpoint this morning. Surprisingly, they had it set up in the area with the most shade. lol

 

I suspect that the PNP LEGALLY could do as you suggest but don't. In the US it would be an illegal / unconstitutional act due to not having probable cause to suspect a crime had been committed but they WOULD do it because they want the revenue and most people would just pay and not fight it in court.

I actually prefer the PNP way. I actually avoid the pile up and approach the inspection point at 20 KPH in my jeep and they wave me through without checking my papers. Problem solved.

Funny thing is I hadn't obtained a watertight container to put the papers in so they were at home. If they actually had checked it would have been an Oops moment. I made it a priority and got a container the next day and from then on I had papers with me.