LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines- Lapu-Lapu's elderly policemen will no longer be assigned to Urban Patrolling amid the current soaring temperatures. Police Colonel Elmer Lim, director of LCPO said this is to protect the older policemen from direct exposure to sunlight. Lim said that older policemen are vulnerable to heatstroke and other illnesses that can be triggered by high-level temperatures. Currently, Lim said that most of their urban patrollers are patrolmen. He added that elderly policemen were assigned to mobile patrol to avoid direct sunlight exposure.

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