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BY RESEL JOY TIANERO
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
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ILOILO City – While their interoperability was good, Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) personnel need to improve their communications.
This was what Chief Superintendent Cesar Hawthorne Binag observed during the ICPO’s simulation exercise (Simex) in Barangay Concepcion, City Proper recently.
Emergency and crisis response must come in a “complete package,” stressed the regional police director.
According to Binag, he may soon require all police units in Western Visayas to hold a communication exercise, or Comex.
The Comex may be conducted once a month, Senior Inspector Shella Mae Sangrines, ICPO spokesperson, told Panay News.
Sangrines said the Comex will allow officers to master making decisions and giving instructions “aside from how a unit actually moves on the field.”
There is a need to manage the press well, too. Disclosing select information is crucial in dealing with emergency and crisis situations, Binag said.
For their safety, the press must stay in a “media holding center.” The police’s public information officer will provide them with facts, including a matrix/description of the scene and hotline numbers, he said.
Superintendent Julius Balano and Chief Inspector Jerrymae Bello helped Binag observe the Simex on June 16.
Meanwhile the ICPO requested the Office of City Mayor to provide them with floor plans of areas of convergence, including churches and schools. “This will help the police make their way through and clear these structures in case of emergency or crisis,” said Sangrines.
Other agencies that participated in the Simex were Bureau of Fire Protection, Iloilo City Emergency Response team, City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, Philippine Coast Guard, and Philippine Ports Authority./PN
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