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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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Friday, March 17, 2017
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ILOILO City – Twenty-two youngsters were caught violating the curfew ordinance for minors on Wednesday night.
The City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) took custody of the minors.
The city government’s Task Force on Morals and Values Formation (TFMVF) led the rounding up of violators.
According to task force head George Duron, 14 of the minors were from La Paz district (seven each from barangays Jereos and Bantud), four from Mandurriao district (all from Barangay Bolilao), three from Molo district (two from Barangay Boulevard and one from Barangay Tap-oc), and one from Jaro district (Barangay Quintin Salas).
Two of the youngsters were remitted to Balay Dalayunan in Lapuz, five to the Crisis Intervention Unit (CIU) of the CSWDO while the rest were brought to their respective homes.
Balay Dalayunan (House of Refuge) is a halfway house of the Department of Social Welfare and Development for rescued abandoned or homeless children and teenagers.
Duron said the parents of those brought back to their homes were served with notices for a meeting today (March 17), 9 a.m., with the TFMVF and CSWDO at city hall.
That a lot of minors were apprehended showed many were not aware of the curfew ordinance for minors, lamented Duron.
The task force banks on the cooperation of barangay officials for the sustained enforcement of the curfew, he stressed.
Regulation Ordinance No. 2006-020, which amended Regulation Ordinance No. 2011-676 (Curfew on Minors), sets the curfew hours from 10 p.m. (not 11 p.m. as reported yesterday) to 4 a.m. of the following day.
Minors are also prohibited from selling or vending whatever items (including food and beverages) even with their parents or guardians around, and its shall be unlawful for business establishments to admit minors within their premises during curfew hours.
The curfew aims to shield youngsters from illegal activities.
During Tuesday’s regular session of the city council, Councilor Joshua Alim urged colleagues to also revisit other ordinances related to minors, including Regulation Ordinance No. 2012-180 (Liquor Ban for Minors). He observed that this was not being enforced or that business establishments and the minors themselves were deliberately ignoring it.
Alim suggested that the SP committee on police matters to summon the owners of establishments selling liquor.
Under the curfew ordinance on minors, any violating business establishment shall be meted with the following sanctions:
* first violation – written notice of warning
* second violation – imposition of a P5,000 fine
* third violation – closure of the establishment for three day
* fourth violation – closure of the establishment for five days; and
* fifth violation – revocation of business permit./PN
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