About 3,000 police personnel are stationed in Bohol for the duration of the fifth Asean ministerial meeting in Panglao, Bohol province, starting today until the end of the month.
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Security is up at Panglao, Bohol province, where 32 out of 35 delegates to the ministerial meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have already arrived yesterday.
In yesterday’s press conference, Chief Supt. Jose Mario Espino, Police Regional Office chief, told reporters that the delegates were senior ministers in each of their respective countries and they held informal meetings prior to today’s session.
Espino said they have yet to receive any word of movements of terrorists and criminal elements prior to this week’s meetings, the fifth to be held in Bohol province this year.
Espino said he will head off to Panglao today to personally supervise the security details for the delegates who will start holding meetings today until the end of this month.
About 3,000 police personnel including 1,000 from the PRO-7’s Regional Public Safety Company were detailed in Panglao to secure the delegates and the province from terrorist and criminal elements.
The first Asean ministerial meetings held in Bohol last April ended peacefully despite the aborted attempts by the Abu Sayyaf bandits to enter the province.