MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippine National Police's Traffic Management Group (TMG) has been renamed to PNP Highway Patrol Group.
The renaming of the police unit was based on a recommendation of the PNP leadership after the PNP unit was stripped of its traffic management duties during the term of former PNP Chief Oscar Calderon, the National Police Commission said Wednesday.
"The Traffic Management Group has become a misnomer since traffic management has been given to the MMDA [Metro Manila Development Authority],” said PNP Spokesman Chief Superintendent Nicanor Bartolome.
Bartolome said the new unit will now focus on anti-carnapping, highway robbery and hi-jacking incidents.
Napolcom Personnel and Administrative Service chief Isidro Siriban said the move “was aimed at addressing the misconception that the functions of the said unit merely duplicate and overlap the functions of the Traffic Enforcement Groups of the Metro Manila Development Authority and the different local police units.”
Former Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Reynaldo Berroya also revoked the deputization of the PNP-TMG from enforcing traffic rules and LTO regulations because of alleged complaints from motorists of extortion by personnel of the unit.
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