Traffic enforcers of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority may soon arrest traffic violators who will dare to attack its personnel, an official said on Sunday. In a radio interview, MMDA operations supervisor Bong Nebrija said the legal affairs services advised them to consider doing “citizen’s arrest,” or a warrantless arrest by a private person, if enforcers should be assaulted. She also cursed at Nebrija and even resisted accepting the traffic violation ticket because one of the MMDA enforcers allegedly laughed at her mockingly. “If there’s no available policemen [during the commission of a traffic violation], then maybe we can do the arrest ourselves,” Nebrija said. ADVERTISEMENT“We need our men to be trained on this, especially on the proper way to arrest violators,” the MMDA official said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 18, 2018 11:48 UTC