By
Redjie Melvic M. Cawis
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- The Benguet police is
enhancing preparations for the May 13 automated polls even as the province has
been known to be peaceful during elections.
During the recent
provincial command conference for Baguio City and Benguet, the Benguet
provincial police office presented the deployment and security plan which puts
into priority vital installations and infrastructures in the province including
the Binga and Ambuklao Dams.
BPPO director Senior
Supt. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. said Benguet
police is ready to implement the plan.
“We have to consider
the security of the vital installations in Benguet, specifically the Ambuklao
and Binga dams which are source of power and electricity that is very important
during the May 13 elections,” said Azurin.
He said although the
Philippine National Police is not seeing any threats to the vital installations
in the province and the people, they should remain vigilant to ensure that the
May elections will be peaceful, orderly and fair.
The police chief said
the police force will be deploying almost 400 personnel to polling centers in
schools, municipal halls at the provincial capitol.
He said that the BPPO
will provide security starting from the transport and delivery of the Precinct
Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines to the different poling centers until
retrieval of the machines after the elections.
They will be working
closely with the AIR21, the official cargo partner of the Commission on
Elections on the logistics, and plan how to deliver the PCOS and other election
materials to the areas of Benguet, particularly those which can only be reached
by passing through the Ilocos Region such as Barangay Kayapa in Bakun via
Ilocos Sur and Barangay Ansagan in Tuba via Binalonan, Pangasinan, he
added.
Azurin said they could
offer their vehicles to transport the PCOS machines and other election
materials to polling precincts that are hard to reach.
He said police would
remain apolitical in the elections.
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