A policewoman inspects bags of jeepney passengers along R. Castillo street, Davao City. Routine inspections of both public and private vehicles have become the norm in the city after the Davao bombing that claimed at least 14 lives and wounded 70 others on September 2. The incident led President Rodrigo Duterte’s to issue a proclamation declaring a state of national emergency. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
DAVAO CITY — Almost two weeks after the deadly bombing in the Roxas Avenue night market, the Public Safety and Security Command Center here has partnered with the Interpol or the International Criminal Police Organization to intensify security measures in the city.
Retired General Benito de Leon, chief of the PSSCC said the partnership will “beef up intelligence monitoring of lawless groups and their activities.”
“We are using other means (to gather intelligence) particularly through the Interpol database and the fusion of all the intelligence network in the city and outside the city,” de Leon said in a City Information Office dispatch on Tuesday, September 13.
He said the PSSCC will be able to access the Interpol database to better monitor any international threat in the city.
De Leon, however, clarified that the partnership with Interpol is not because they are monitoring an international terrorist group’s involvement in the September 2 bombing.
“There is no international group behind the incident (Roxas night market bombing). It is just something that is isolated,” he added.
Davao City is the first local government in the country to partner with the France-based intergovernmental organization composed of 190 countries. (davaotoday.com)
