SECURITY MEASURES. Mayor Eleanor “Joni” Villanueva-Tugna (right) of Bocaue, Bulacan talks to the stall owners in a public market regarding their concerns in community quarantine and criminal elements on Friday (March 20, 2020). Due constraint movement of the public, authorities are anticipating that desperate individuals may turn to looting and even robbing unguarded commercial establishments. (Photo courtesy of Bocaue Municipal Government)
BOCAUE, Bulacan – More security measures have been placed at the Golden City Business Park and Intercity Industrial Estate, two of the country’s major rice trading centers here, a police official said on Friday.
In an interview, Lt. Col. Rizalino Andaya, Bocaue police chief, said police monitoring post has been set up in the trading centers as precautionary measures against possible looting and burglary.
Andaya said the management of the trading centers has put up additional security personnel on a 24-hour watch.
Mayor Eleanor “Joni” Villanueva-Tugna said volunteers have also augmented the police force of the town in securing the two major rice trading centers and the public market.
Meanwhile, Piolito Santos, director of the National Food Authority (NFA)- Central Luzon, said they have advised all security personnel to be always on alert to safeguard their employees, offices, warehouses, stocks for any untoward incident or security threat amid coronavirus disease (Covid-19) Luzon-wide enhanced quarantine.
Santos also said they have already requested police personnel to conduct monitoring in all our warehouses.
Brig. General Rhodel Sermonia, Central Luzon regional police director, earlier asked the public to take extra caution and be vigilant for possible cases of looting and burglary following the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine.
Sermonia said due to the constraint movement of the public, they are anticipating that desperate individuals may turn to looting and even robbing unguarded commercial establishments, including supermarkets, grocery stores, warehouses and related food banks due to scarcity of essential supply or basic commodities. (PNA)
