THE police were able to issue warnings and sent home 305 individuals, both minors and of legal age, in a simultaneous Oplan Tambay (anti-loitering) operation held Friday night until the wee hours of Saturday, June 22.
The 11 police stations under the Cebu City Police Office conducted the operation in critical areas under their areas of responsibility and warned these persons of their violations.
Oplan Tambay which is an acronym for "Tangtangon Ang Maabusado, Badlongon sa katilingban ug Apil niini ang mga Yawan-ong buhat" is a police response to President Rodrigo Duterte's order to crackdown against "loiterers" or tambays across the country.
From 10 p.m. on Friday until 3 a.m. Saturday morning, police made the rounds in the city and recorded the following "arrests":
* 60 persons were drinking in prohibited places
* 44 were smoking in public
* 73 were not wearing shirts and were loitering outside their homes
* 6 for illegal dispatching
* 64 minors violating the curfew (City Ordinance 71086)
* 11 for the use of coaster, roller skates and similar devices (C.O. 801)
* 6 for the anti-noise pollution (C.O. 1940)
* 7 for urinating, spitting, littering, defecating in public places (C.O. 1361)
* 34 for other ordinances like adult/minors involved in trouble, stoning, riot/gang wars
The minors were turned over to barangay officials, parents, guardians and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). (Johanna Marie O. Bajenting/SunStar Cebu)