The Department of Interior and Local Government in Bacolod City willcall for a meeting with barangay officials and tanods on June 29 to ask them to come up with their individual security plans as the city strengthens its security amidst terror threats.
Carmelo Orbista, officer-in-charge of the DILG-Bacolod, yesterdaysaid that since this is a peace and order concern, he has decided to call for a meeting with the barangay captains and heads of the barangay tanods, so they could provide immediate response if something happens. They will also invite representatives of the Philippine National Police, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Bacolod Traffic Authority Office and National Bureau of Investigation to help them come up with a security plan because they want all the barangays to have their own, he said. Bacolod Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran said the barangay officials and tanodswill be the ones to give information to the PNP and the AFP if the presence of suspicious looking individuals or groups is noted in their barangays. Familiaran said they will hold another meeting with businessmen, and security agency owners and managers. “We can use them as force multipliers including the traffic enforcers. While they are on duty, traffic enforcers can help monitor suspicious- looking persons to prevent incidentssimilar to what happened in Iloilo and other places,” he said. According to the AFP, out of the 96 barangays in Marawi, the presence of the Mauteis only in four barangays. So they might create destabilization in other local governments to divert the concentration of the PNP and AFP, Familiaran said during the City Peace and Order Council meeting yesterday at the Bacolod City Government Center. The message being circulated in social media sites that the Maute group might enter Bacolod and Negros Island, is now being validated by the AFP, he said. Familiaran appealed to the public to be vigilant against suspicious- looking persons in their areas. “We should not allow them todisturb the peaceful situation in the city. We must not give them an opportunity by being complacent,” he said. The PNP and AFPare on alert and continue to monitor the entry of people to Bacolod City and Negros Occidental, Familiaran said. During the CPOC meeting, they discussed the peace and order situation in Bacolod in relation to the Marawi siege, the incident involving the police in Maasin, the Mautesister who was allegedly apprehended at the Iloilo port, and Facebook and text messages circulating involving security threats to the city and Negros Island, he said.*CGS BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
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