Wednesday, November 11, 2015

PNP to conduct full-scale exercise for APEC Saturday

From the Philippine News Agency (Nov 11): PNP to conduct full-scale exercise for APEC Saturday

To ensure that all security preparations for the coming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meeting are up and running, the Philippine National Police (PNP) announced it will be holding a full-scale exercise this coming Saturday.

This was disclosed by PNP chief Director General Ricardo Marquez in a press briefing Wednesday held at the Multi-Agency Coordination Center (MACC) is located One Esplanade, MOA Pasay City.

This will start 2 a.m. so that the public will not be inconvenienced, he added.

This will include convoy runs and other security measures.

Marquez declined to comment on how long the activity will last.

He said there are no specific security threats for the moment.

And regarding the security concerns of the Chinese Ambassador regarding hostile rallyists, the PNP chief assured the former that they have sufficient police to secure them at all times.

Sought for a comment to assess the readiness of the security force, Marquez said that "we are very confident that we have put up a good security plan, we have covered 36 events already. we are bringing the best people in those 36 events. We have gathered the best practices. Our people learned on the job and this in the final show (and) so we are very confident our security preparedness is excellent."

For his part, Interior and Local Government Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento said that all systems go for security preparations this coming APEC summit.

He appealed to the public for understanding for some inconveniences during the APEC summit.

Earlier, Joint Task Force-National Capital Region (JTF-NCR) deputy commander Col. Vic Tomas said no untoward threats will mar the APEC meet which will start Nov. 17 to 20.

He added they are constantly monitoring and coordinating with their local and international counterparts to prevent this aside from beefing up their security preparations.

"(Ongoing now are) continuous coordination, rehearsal, testing of capabilities of (various) task units and of course, how fast we can we respond to any crisis situations," Tomas stressed.

And when asked about the worse case scenarios, the JTF-NCR chief said they are looking and preparing for the so-called CBRNE or chemical biological radiological nuclear and explosives risk.

Add to these threats are earthquakes and other natural calamities.

But Tomas said that they are studying and preparing for all these eventualities as this is the prudent thing to do under the so-called " full spectrum risk management preparedness protocols".

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=825885

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