Ninety traffic and police personnel in Negros Oriental are attending the three-day seminar on traffic law enforcement being conducted for deputation purposes by the Land Transportation Office in Bais City.

LTO-Bais chief Janine Flores Lawas said the seminar that started yesterday serves as a refresher course for previously deputized traffic law enforcers whose deputation orders have already expired.

The participants include personnel of police stations in the province, the Provincial Public Safety Company, Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office, Highway Patrol Group and the Traffic Management Office enforcers of Tanjay and Bais cities and Manjuyod town.

The Dumaguete Traffic Management Office did not send representatives despite being invited, Lawas said.

Officials from the LTO Regional Office in Cebu are conducting the refresher course, that will include actual roadside operations to gauge the skills of participants and the newly-implemented National Mandatory Motorcycle Helmet Law, or Republic Act 10054.

She said she hopes that the LTO Region 7 will expedite the release of the deputation orders so the policemen can assist other deputized agents in enforcing traffic laws.*JFP

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