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ILOILO City – Enforcing the ordinance imposing curfew on minors is too massive a task for the city government’s Task Force on Morals and Values Formation to carry out alone.
It cannot monitor the city’s 180 barangays all at the same time from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., the curfew hours, said George Duron, the task force’s executive director.
While the Iloilo City Police Office’s Women and Children Protection Desk and City Social Welfare and Development Office help the task force, Duron said barangay authorities play the most important role in ensuring that minors are not loitering in the streets during curfew hours.
To empower barangays, the task force has been holding lectures with barangay officials and tanods, among others.
Duron, however, noted a problem – some barangays do not have enough tanods to conduct nightly patrols.
“Some barangays have six tanods only,” he said.
A former barangay captain, Duron said a barangay should have at least 20 barangay tanods.
The minimal honorarium, however, may not be too attractive, he said.
The curfew for minors aims to reduce if not curb crimes involving youth. Duron said the task force’s lectures also include the liquor ban, the Family Code of the Philippines, the Miranda Doctrine in English and Hiligaynon, the Doctrine of Citizens Arrest, how to handle children in conflict with the law, and the proper upbringing of children, among others.
From March 15 to July 9, 2017, the task force apprehended a total of 524 minors for violating the curfew hours.
Duron warned negligent parents and guardians, too. They could be imprisoned from 30 days to six months, he said. (PNA/PN)
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