TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Aug. 31 (PIA) -- Amid the community quarantine restrictions, traffic-related incidents in Bohol saw a 16.16% reduction of cases in the first four months of the year.

Enhanced police presence on the streets, border control points, and active patrols have relatively kept people from unnecessary travel, which could have contributed to the decrease in incidents involving vehicles on the streets, said Camp Dagohoy’s Operations Officer Police Maj. Norman Nuez, who shared the report in behalf of Provincial Police Director Osmundo Salibo. 

During the quarterly joint Provincial Peace and Order Council, Anti-Drug Abuse Council, and Task Force on Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC), Nuez presented a comparative chart showing the traffic-related incidents in first four months of 2020 and 2021.

In 2020, physical injuries caused by traffic-related incidents reached 495 for a monthly average of 123 cases.

In 2021, for the same period between January to April, the incidents dropped to 429, or a 13.33% decrease.

For damage to property caused by traffic-related incidents, in the first four months of 2020, Bohol Police Provincial Office recorded 463 incidents which went down to 386 in the same months in 2021, or a 16.63% drop from the previous year's cases. 

For homicide caused by traffic-related incidents, there were 27 cases recorded in 2020, which dipped down to 22 in 2021, or a decrease of 18.52%. 

By the end of the first quarter of the year, with the noted surge in COVID-19 cases and with reports that public transportation units are overloading passengers, the police force once again combed the streets to implement the relevant policies from the Department of Transportation for transport in General Community Quarantine areas like Bohol. (RAHC/PIA7 Bohol)