Bataan PNP to deploy 1,000 police officers in Bagac

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – Police authorities here are planning to deploy some 1,000 highly-trained police officers to the coastal town of Bagac, about 30 kilometers away from the provincial capitol, for the protection and security of the Asean Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) summit to be held at the Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in June this year.

Senior superintendent Rhodel Sermonia, Bataan police provincial director, told local newsmen during a radio guesting last Friday that the participants in the four day summit from the 21 countries are senior finance officers, economists, international financing institutions including representatives from the Asian Development Bank and International Monetary Fund and foreign media.

Sermonia stressed that the newly-prepared SWAT teams will be mobilized to augment law-enforcement units in the locality with the formulation of safety measures for the delegates, business sectoral representatives and other guests who may tour the historic peninsula and the growing improvement in the coastal amenities for vacationers and foreign tourists.

Semonia added that officials from the Department of Finance (DOF) who attended an interagency meeting with the provincial leaders led by Bataan Governor Albert Raymond S. Garcia and Bagac mayor Rommel del Rosario, said that the APEC conference would tackle the issues of financial transparency and taxation relevant to the Asean integration program.

Nicanor Ancheta, Bagac Municipal Administrator, likewise said that issues expected to be addressed during the four day summit include tariff liberation to boost intra –regional trade and commercial exchange. He further explained that the finance managers conference is a great opportunity for the local officials to present to the delegates and visitors the unexplored natural resources of the historic town as a potential tourist hub in the country facing the panoramic west Philippine sea.

He added that the presence of internationally accepted Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar would further hasten the Mariveles and Bagac towns’ coastal villages stretch, of about 40 kilometers, to be converted as a beach paradise for local and foreign tourists .

Bagac is one of the eleven towns in Bataan with the largest land and sea areas suitable for manufacturing and tourism ventures with local and foreign entrepreneurs.