Verification with Picture taking????

These past days i stayed in Laguna. On this Prestigious Municipality called Paete.

There's a lot of riders here who doesn't follow the rules about wearing helmet and the likes.

They always say that " this is a province, so we dont need to follow it" .

Today, i encountered 2 checkpoints along the hiway, first is when im going to Sta. Cruz this checkpoint were on the right ride of the road.

And what i always do is to ask the police officer what's up.

The officer replied that its a checkpoint with Picture taking for verification. all i can is is "what?".

I looked around and i saw this one officer who has a white board marker and writing down another riders info, name and the MC's plate number.

I also ask their commanding officer P/Insp Sabeniano why do they need to take a picture of the rider and the bike.

and he replied, " so they will have a record in case they encounter problems " ...

Well, on one part, its actually nice to see these cops doing their job. Also these checkpoints is to prevent criminals also.

These past few days we all knew that motorcycle is the getaway vehicle of the robbers who rob the bank in Dasmarinas Cavite and also the Las Pinas Bayad Center Robbery.

On this part of Laguna, holdup robbery is also a hit. One of the target place of these criminals is the place before you go up to Hydro power plant.

Well, i already passed the first check point. After i fetch my girlfriend, on our way home.

I encountered another checkpoint in LUMBAN. As i always do, i ask the officer again. I ask the officer if i really need to stop even thou i already check on my way to sta cruz. he politely ask " which part are you checked?" . i told him "kalayaan sir", he answered, "well, son, this is Lumban, its a different place".

So i give out my registration and license, they checked it and i had a lil chit chat with the Inspector.

I ask him, i saw a rider, who has 2 backride with a kid not older than 5 years old, you should apprehend them and issue tickets so they will learn to use helmet sir". He replied, "don't worry son, we always do that". And yes, to my surprise, there's one violators that even thou he has connection to who ever it was, the inspector ordered to issue him a ticket..


Well, hats down to these "few good men" .. i hope your raise will prosper.

They address riders properly and they are very polite.


Here's a video of the said Kalayaan Verification, pardon my hair, i just woke up.

Kalayaan Verification