Riding-in-tandem ban helped lower NCR crime rate
MANILA, Philippines — The Mandaluyong ordinance banning men from riding in tandem on motorcycles was a “big help” in lowering the crime rate in Metro Manila, Maj. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, chief of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), said Saturday. In the first three years of the Duterte administration, the crime rate in Metro Manila dropped by 58%, Eleazar told reporters on the sidelines of the Anti-Crime Summit held at the Atrium Executive Building in Mandaluyong. He singled out the riding-in-tandem ban in Manila as a “big help” in preventing crimes, particularly murder and robbery, in the Metro Manila