ATOK, Benguet, Aug. 22 (PIA) -- The police personnel in this town has found a way to help students in their education in the new modalities of learning in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Atok Municipal Police Station Chief, PMaj. Zacarias Dausen said they initiated a project dubbed as “Pulis Mo, Mailman Mo” where police officers will serve as couriers of learning materials for college students in the municipality.
The Atok MPS recently forged a memorandum of understanding with two higher education institutions in La Trinidad, the Cordillera Career Development College thru President Dr. Sherry Junette Malaya-Tagle and the Kings College of the Philippines thru President Rev. Anita Gomaya for the undertake of the project.
Dausen said the “Pulis Mo Mailman Mo Project” aims to minimize exposure of students and their parents on the threat of COVID-19 as they undertake a new mode of learning this school year 2020-2021.
With the project, the schools will drop off the learning modules and other school materials at the Atok MPS in Sayangan along the Halsema Highway and the Community Affairs Development Unit of the MPS will be responsible in contacting the students that their schools materials arrived for them to pick it up at the police station.
If students cannot pick up their school materials since most of the students live in the far flung barangays of the municipality and public transportation is not yet available, the police will deliver the school materials to the students while they also will conduct patrol along their areas of responsibility. Dausen said that the Atok police personnel are patrolling from Kilometer 28 to Kilometer 58 stretch along the Halsema Highway.
Police officers will also be retrieving the school materials which will be submitted back to the schools depending on the set schedule.
Dausen explained that since the start of the Enhanced Community Quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they saw the hardships of parents and students who have been coming to the Atok Municipal Hall and police station to apply for necessary travel papers and documents for them to travel to Baguio City and La Trinidad just to get learning materials from the different schools or submit the needed requirements. Since there are no public transport available, the parents even hire vehicles which will bring them to the schools for the needed school materials or requirements.
Thru the project, Dausen said that they are helping the parents and the students particularly lessen the time and financial constraints, at the same time ensuring safety for them during this time. He added that this is also an opportunity for their police personnel to strengthen and sustain rapport and networks with the students, parents and the community and also enhance and expand collaboration with more institutions and stakeholders. (JDP/RMC- PIA CAR
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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