By now, every motorist should already be aware that the (re) implementation of the NCAP or the No Contact Apprehension Policy of the MMDA begins today, 26 May 2025. It has been close to three years since a TRO was issued, but today marks its return since the lifting of the Temporary Restraining Order last week. So, to jog your memories or to simply build your information base from scratch, here’s your guide to the Policy as laid out by the Metro Manila Development Authority.
Everything you need to know about the NCAP or No Contact Apprehension Policy
To start, a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) was issued by the Supreme Court in 2022 that effectively stopped the enforcement of the NCAP completely. That was, until the TRO was lifted. Many efforts to restart the Policy have been exerted, but it was only last week that it was lifted. With that, it’s all systems go. So without further ado, here’s what you need to know.
What roads are covered by NCAP?
Per the MMDA, the roads you see listed above will be subject to the enforcement of the No Contact Apprehension Policy. Enforcers will no longer, as the Policy’s name is, flag motorists down nor ask them to pull over. Instead, tools such as CCTV cameras, digital cameras, speed guns, or handheld video cameras will be used to tag erring motorists.
As we can all see, these are all primary roads/thoroughfares in the list. These are all in and under the jurisdiction of the MMDA. However, if we remember, LGUs also had their own versions of the NCAP. To date, these LGUs have yet to issue their own statement on whether they will, or how they will implement No Contact Apprehension in their cities. Trust that we will let you know when they do.
How can you be “caught” by the NCAP?
The cameras and speedguns will literally be the MMDA’s eyes in the sky. Whether on the street level or pedestrian overpasses, these cameras and enforcers wielding different forms of gadgets will rely on each other to snap photos and take videos of vehicles that they deem as breaking road laws. These will be verified, and if the vehicle indeed broke any laws, its records will be accessed with the help of the Land Transportation Office’s systems.
Once all the information has been gathered, this, along with the violation specifics, will be encoded in the NCAP system. After which, the Notice of Violation or NOV will be printed and sent via PhilPost mail to the registered address of the vehicle owner or, in the case of buses, the bus company’s address on file.
Wrongful apprehension? Caught red-handed by the NCAP? Here’s how to file an appeal, or how and where to pay
Of course, to err is human, and if you think the enforcers of the NCAP have tagged you and your vehicle incorrectly, then there is a way to lodge an appeal, and that is by scanning the QR code or going to the URL that you see in the image above. Doing either will bring you to a 7-page Google Form that will ask for a number of details pertaining to the vehicle, its owner, and the driver, if a different individual was behind the wheel at the time of the apprehension.
The last 2 pages are the most important, in that Page 6 asks for your details in relation to the vehicle and its registered owner, while Page 7 asks for the particulars of the Ticket/apprehension, and your narration of the incident that will prove the error of the apprehension.
Should the high-tech route be unavailable, appeals may be filed at the MMDA Head Office at Julia Vargas Avenue corner Molave Street, Barangay Ugong, Pasig City from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday to Friday.
If the specifics of the NCAP Ticket are in order, then online payments may be processed via this link, the same as the link that you see in the image above. If, again, online payments cannot be done, it can also be made at the MMDA Head Office, whose address we have indicated in the paragraph above.
Thus far, this is all the pertinent information that every motorist must know about the implementation and enforcement of the NCAP or No Contact Apprehension Policy that begins today, 26 May 2025.
Inevitably, there will be more updates to this article, namely how specific LGUs will enforce their own version of the Policy, and as we promised, we will make sure to let you, our dear readers, know of those details once they come in.
For now, feel free to bookmark this page, study its contents, and make sure that you know the rules of and your rights as pertaining to the NCAP’s return.
How if the enforcer told you to go while in red signal then you where caught NCAP ? Sometime Due to traffic they do that then Nov came to hour house. How will we defend ourselves THEN?