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<p style="margin-bottom:2px;line-height:normal">MANILA – The police Highway Patrol Group said it does not hire out its officers as road escorts after a social media influencer claimed her husband had hired a motorcycle cop to get her past traffic.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">The HPG said it “will not tolerate” its personnel acting as private traffic escorts for pay, which is “strictly against our existing protocols and regulations” but also said it is still verifying whether any of its cops actually have.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">The claim was made on a content creator&#x27;s Instagram Story that has since expired but not before other users took screenshots of the post and commented on the supposed special treatment.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Some social media users also speculated that the user may have gotten the motorcycle escort through a politician, some of whom travel in convoys and with police escorts.  </p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/4/7/marcos-jr-says-gov-t-officials-to-lead-improved-road-discipline-to-ease-traffic-congestion-1744" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">READ: Marcos Jr. says gov’t officials to lead improved road discipline to ease traffic congestion </a> </div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Apart from the security escorts, numbered protocol plates for some officials and a general deference by uniformed personnel to people in power have accorded some politicians special treatment on the road.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/4/11/new-rules-fewer-protocol-plates-sirens-and-blinkers-banned-1211" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NEW RULES: Fewer protocol plates, sirens and blinkers banned</a></div><div><br/></div><p>“We will file the necessary cybercrime-related offenses [against] those individuals who will post any malicious statement that will malign/tarnish the image of the HPG and the possible criminal and administrative charges for our personnel,” the Highway Patrol Group, which is mandated to enforce road safety and traffic laws, said.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Although it is against regulations, police officers — including from the HPG — have been caught moonlighting and acting as unauthorized security escorts.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Motorcycle and traffic enforcement personnel have also figured in kidnapping schemes, <a href="http://4 cops nabbed for kidnapping foreign nationals in Pasay City">where foreign nationals have been flagged down and then abducted</a>.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZMuE128dZ5Y?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>The HPG said it “will not tolerate” its personnel acting as private traffic escorts for pay, which is “strictly against our existing protocols and regulations.”</p>

The HPG said it “will not tolerate” its personnel acting as private traffic escorts for pay, which is “strictly against our existing protocols and regulations.”

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HPG says probing claim motorcycle cop escorted social media user through traffic

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Published June 08, 2024 01:16 PM PHT

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