Brig. Gen. Henry Sabarre, commander of the Army’s 7th Infantry Division, met Friday with top officials of the
“Our division
would be the main security provider during election time. The Central
Luzon regional police are our counterpart. Both commands should
discuss and agree at some points for the smooth implementation of our joint
security plan and actions,” Sabarre said.
Regional police
director Chief Supt.Rudy Lacadin, meanwhile, said the conference has focused on
identifying areas in the region which have incidents of election-related
killings by warring political groups.
“Our aim in this
meeting is to have unified efforts among members of the security forces
hand-in-hand with counterparts in other government agencies so that the
forthcoming elections will be secured and fair through the signing of the Joint
PNP-AFP Security Plan,” he said.
Pursuant to
Resolution No. 9571 of the Commission on Elections, the PNP and AFP are
deputized to assist Comelec in its security preparations for the elections.
Comelec regional
election director Temie Lambino said they have asked both commands to have the
conference seven months before elections so they will have enough time to
revise and enhance the security plan.
Lambino said the
regional election office and the PNP-AFP security providers will be coming out
of a list of election hotspot areas in the next coming months where security
preparations are now being discussed by them.
Both Sabarre and
Lacadin agreed to work together to identify these areas including political
parties and personalities and their private armed groups.
“Our objective
here is to prevent the formation by unscrupulous politicians of more PAGs while
we intensify efforts to eliminated the existing ones. As of now, we’re closely
working with the regional police to eliminate PAGs operating in our AOR,”
Sabarre said.
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