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BAGUIO CITY — The city government, through the Smoke-Free Baguio Task Force, has deputized more community volunteers as well as security and traffic personnel to enforce Ordinance 34, series of 2017 or the Smoke-Free Baguio Ordinance.
The enforcers underwent a two-day training conducted at the City Health Services Office under a battery of resource persons.
The initiative aims to further strengthen the Summer Capital's commitment and advocacy for a smoke-free city to protect people from the harmful effects of smoking and vaping.
The task force said the additional enforcers are volunteers from the different barangay, security guards, traffic and parking aides from the City Engineering Office-Transport and Traffic Management Division and police officers from the Baguio City Police Office Traffic Enforcement Unit, Tourist Police Unit, and Mobile Patrol Unit.
They were trained on how to properly apprehend and issue citation tickets to violators, among other procedures of ordinance enforcement.
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Mayor Benjamin Magalong said that every year, the city targets augmentation of smoke-free enforcers to be deployed in the central business district and in the community considering that most of the violators are at the barangay level.
With the increasing incidents of vape use among the youth, the city wants to make sure that the youth are monitored and advised not to use any smoking devices and young children are protected from the ill effects of tobacco and the electronic kind.
