PNP deploys 700 police officers for WACOM

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – More than 700 police officers including augmentation troops coming from the police regional office in Camp Olivas, San Fernando, Pampanga are reportedly deployed to this province to safeguard the security of about 4,000 delegates to the 4^th World Apostolic Congress on Mercy (WACOM) who are expected to visit at least four places tomorrow, Friday (January 20) as part of its five days activities.

Superintendent Rommel A. Velasco, chief of Bataan Provincial Public Safety Company, said that Senior Superintendent Benjamin H. Silo, Jr, Bataan police director, ordered the various police units to undertake comprehensive safety and protective measures for the delegates from different countries.

Velasco said that the Catholic lay devotees  and foreign delegates will visit the St. Joseph  Cathedral and Divine Mercy Shrine in Balanga City; St. Catherine of Alexandria Church in Bagac town and the Holy Land inside the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) in Morong. Police traffic personnel are assigned along major road networks for the smooth flow of more than a hundred buses carrying local and foreign devotees

The delegates will converge in Hotel Oriente, inside the Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar, a world–class heritage resort in Bagac town for the culmination of the activities in the afternoon with this year’s theme, Communion in Mercy, Mission for Mercy.

Bataan Bishop Ruperto C. Santos, chairman of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People explained that the Congress will be a time of healing for us, that there is still hope for those whom we consider the least, and the last. “We believe it will be fruitful and there would be a blessing for all of us in spite of what we have experienced and in spite of what we have seen “, Bishop Santos added.