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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
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ILOILO City – Beginning today, the city will be crawling with policemen.
Troop deployment starts for the city’s hosting of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) meetings that kick off this March 6 until the 16th.
For security reasons, the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) is not disclosing the number of policemen it is mobilizing but spokesperson Superintendent Gilbert Gorero said it would be “thousands.”
Iloilo City is hosting the following ASEAN meetings:
* 22nd Senior Officials Committee for the ASCC (SOCA) Meeting from March 6 to 9
* 17th ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Council (ASCC) Meeting from March 6 to 9
* 3rd ASEAN – Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Good Regulatory Practice Network Meeting from March 14 to 16.
Policemen will be posted on streets, malls, hotels, and restaurants, among many other places where people usually converge.
The PRO-6 is also imposing an 18-day gun ban in Iloilo City starting March 3. All permits to carry firearms outside of residence (PTCFOR) will be suspended.
Only members of the police, Armed Forces of the Philippines and other law enforcement agencies performing official duties are allowed to carry firearms but they must also be in their agency-prescribed uniform, said Gorero.
“We want to assure our visitors that they are safe. Iloilo City is a peaceful place,” said Gorero.
There will be round-the-clock checkpoints, said Senior Inspector Shella Mae Sangrines, spokesperson of the Iloilo City Police Office.
This is not the first time Iloilo City is hosting a huge international event. It hosted meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation on disaster risk reduction, small, and medium enterprises, and food security from Sept. 21 to Oct. 6, 2015. The Iloilo Convention Center was the site of these meetings./PN
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