Oplan Tambay
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| Date | June 13, 2018 – July 29, 2018 |
|---|---|
| Location | Metro Manila, Philippines |
| Type | Law enforcement campaign |
| Target | Street loiterers |
| Participants | Philippine National Police |
| Arrests | 78,359 loiterers (Metro Manila only, July 29, 2018)[1] |
Oplan Tambay was the law enforcement campaign first announced by President Rodrigo Duterte on June 13, 2018, that penalized the loiterers (Tagalog: tambays) who violated the city ordinance such as smoking in public places, drinking liquor on the streets, and going shirtless in public.[2] The campaign had at least 8,000 residents were either accosted or apprehended for violating the rules in two weeks.[3]
On September 18, 2017, Duterte said that he wanted the police to "pick up" the people who loiter in the streets at night and to arrest the person who drink liquor in public places.[4] In his speech on June 13, 2018, Duterte ordered the police to impose stricter measures against the loiterers "to make the streets safer."[5] The campaign was announced by the PNP Chief Director General Oscar Albayalde on June 18, 2018.[6] He said that those who violated the local ordinances would be arrested.[7] This includes drinking in public, alarm and scandal, curfew on minors, smoking on public, and partial nudity in public.[7]
There are no laws that criminalize the bystanders. Then-President Benigno Aquino III signed the Republic Act 10158 on 2012 that decriminalized vagrancy.[8] An Article 202 of the Revised Penal Code said that the police should arrest “any person found loitering about public or semi-public buildings or places or tramping or wandering about the country or the streets without visible means of support.”[8] The said article has been removed, allowing the people to roam freely.[8]
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