A TRAFFIC policeman died when his motorcycle was hit by a passenger jeep while he was going after a van without license plates along Marcos Highway in Pasig City Wednesday.

Philippine National Police chief Director General Arturo C. Lomibao said he has given SPO3 Rodolfo R. Duanan a posthumous promotion. Lomibao visited Duanan's wake at the Camp Crame mortuary and offered his condolences to the officer's grieving widow Nena.

He also instructed Traffic Management Group director Chief Supt. Ricardo C. Quinto to arrange the giving of college scholarship grants to Duanan's two children.

"SPO3 Duanan was trying to enforce the no plate, no travel policy when he was killed. It was very, very unfortunate," Lomibao said.

Chief Supt. Lorenzo J. Holanday Jr., chief of the National Capital Region Traffic Management Office, said a Cubao-bound van without license plates ignored a TMG checkpoint on Marcos Highway at 5:20 a.m. Wednesday, prompting Duanan to chase the driver.

However, he was struck by a passenger jeep driven by Benedictadeo B. dela Cruz, of Binangonan, Rizal.

The policeman died from broken bones and head injuries at the Amang Rodriguez General Hospital.

Police arrested Dela Cruz and impounded his jeep. He will be charged with reckless imprudence resulting in homicide.
Holanday said the dri-ver of the van escaped