Philippines: More police outposts to rise in Petron gas stations

Petron Corporation, the Philippines’s largest oil refining and marketing company, is expanding its “safe journey” program all over the archipelago by adding 300 more police outposts in its service stations, reported Malaya Business Insight.

The successful partnership with the Philippine National Police will expand the 20 pilot police outposts in Metro Manila and nearby provinces to other parts of the country.

Around 210 police outposts will be built in the Luzon region and 90 more in the regions of Visayas and Mindanao.

Petron service stations will allot a space where the police can set up their command posts, which will then serve as complaints desks and boost the current administration’s campaign against criminality.

There are approximately 2,200 Petron service stations in the Philippines.