The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) has rolled out what it calls Mobile KTB (Kusina, Tele-Eskwela and Barangayanihan) in a bid to assist Metro Manila residents who were severely affected by the implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ).
NCRPO director Maj. Gen. Vicente Danao, Jr. said the Mobile KTBs of the NCRPO have been deployed starting on August 7.
"Our Mobile KTBs are providing hot meals, health kits and mineral water to the street children, homeless and street sweepers around Metro. The aim is to extend help and assistance to the severely affected families and individuals during this current health crisis," said Danao.
NCRPO spokesperson Lt. Col. Jenny Tecson said there are two Mobile KTBs currently doing rounds in Metro Manila--one from the Regional Community Police Relations and the other is from the Regional Mobile Forces Battalion.
Each Mobile KTBs has a small kitchen, a built-in television and is carrying relief items that would be distributed to poor people, especially the homeless ones in Metro Manila. The same Mobile KTBs also cater to the needs of the policemen who were deployed to man border control points.
The small kitchen caters for the hot meals while the built-in television is to entertain children.
"Since it is ECQ, the Mobile KTBs are not staying in one place for a long time," Tecson told the Manila Bulletin in an interview.
"At the same time, the Mobile KTB is constantly reminding the people to observe minimum public health safety because it has a built-in speaker system," he added.
As of Sunday, Tecson said a total of 400 packs of porridge with boiled egg' 400 packs of noodles; 1,000 pieces of bottled water; 500 pieces Yoghurt; and 1,000 health kits were distributed to 650 homeless and street children, 55 street sweepers, baangay security officers and other volunteers, and 90 NCRPO personnel in Quarantine Control Points (QCPs).