THE Bacolod City Council is looking to insure the city’s traffic enforcers.
The august body recently approved a resolution requesting the City Mayor’s Office and the Bacolod Traffic Authority Office to seriously consider giving accident insurance and health insurance coverage the city’s job order personnel who are rendering service regularly as traffic enforcers in view of the nature of their work assignment.
The resolution, authored by Councilor Sonya Verdeflor, was approved during the regular session Wednesday, January 16.
Verdeflor said on January 8, a female traffic enforcer, while performing her duties at night, was struck by a multicab on Burgos-Lacson Streets in Barangay 19.
The victim sustained injuries.
Verdeflor said the incident is an eye-opener for the City Government of Bacolod to seriously consider the general welfare of its traffic enforcers considering the nature of their work assignment.
Bacolod has only 26 regular traffic enforcers and the rest are job order personnel assigned to enforce traffic without any accident insurance coverage or PhilHealth to ensure their general welfare in case of accidents while on duty. (MAP)