DOTr: NCAP will stay despite EDSA rehab postponement

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has announced that the No Contact Apprehension Program (NCAP) of the MMDA will stay, despite the postponement of the EDSA rehabilitation, which was supposed to commence this coming June 13.

“I think so, I think so. I think NCAP will stay because NCAP is not just about EDSA. It’s about enforcing a more efficient way of enforcing our traffic rules,” said Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon.

NCAP was brought back on Monday, May 26, after the Supreme Court partially lifted the TRO. Then, on May 31, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. announced that the EDSA rehabilitation program will be sidelined for the meantime because the government needs more time to iron things out. The President also wanted to speed up the work, from the projected three years down to six months to one year only.

Under the MMDA’s NCAP, traffic management is done with the help of high-definition CCTVs that are spread in strategic areas along Metro Manila’s major throughfares to manage traffic.

Everything starts and goes around the MMDA command center. For example, when a motorist commits a traffic violation, an MMDA operator in the command center reviews and validates the footage. The operator will then verify the vehicle or motorcycle’s registration information through the LTO’s Information Query Facility.

After verification, the MMDA operator then encodes the violation into the NCAP system, which generates and sends a Notice of Violation to the registered address of the violator.