The Rotary Balita no. 796 (May 10, 1956)

The multifarious problems of the Manila Police department, one of which is the utter lack of much-needed personnel, were brought out by Police Chief Telesforo Tenorio in an enlightening speech before members of the Rotary Club at the Manila Hotel Winter Garden on April 26. The present police complement of 2,200 uniformed men and some 200 civilian employees is hardly sufficient to handle Manila's increasing law and order problems, Tenorio explained. Enormous traffic problems are ever on the increase because of the heavy number of vehicles entering and going out of the city daily. The situation has aggravated the insufficiency of available personnel in our traffic division, he said. To help solve this tremendous problem of vehicular traffic, Tenorio offered his remedial project to convert into a parking lot for all types of vehicles that portion of Plaza Lawton facing west and the walls of Intramuros from Magallanes Drive to Victoria. In passing, Chief Tenorio urged the Rotary Club to support the project and sponsor a move to effect transfer of the proposed area from the national government to the city. Anent the so-called juvenile delinquency problem, Tenorio urged the enactment of a law which will make parents of minor offenders accountable and implementation of a government program to reduce the present alarming scourge of unemployment.