ILOILO CITY — The Deputy Regional Director for Operations of the Police Regional Office 6 (Western Visayas) has been designated as the Commander of the Metro Boracay Task Force (MBTF).
Senior Superintendent Jesus Cambay Jr. was designated by PRO-6 Regional Director Police Chief Superintendent Cesar Hawthorne Binag last April 8 to lead the 610-strong police personnel deployed in Boracay in Malay, Aklan in preparation for the six months closure and rehabilitation of the island resort starting April 26.
PRO-6 Spokesperson Chief Inspector Joem Malong, in an interview on Monday, said that Cambay together with other police personnel will ensure the smooth, peaceful and orderly rehabilitation of the island resort.
PRO-6 created the interim force MBTF last February to boost security in the island against all forms of criminality, particularly terrorism concern.
Malong said that the 610 police personnel deployed in the island resort are composed of 126 personnel of the Aklan Police Provincial Office (APPO); 300 from Boracay Sub-Station; four from the Regional Civil Security Unit 6 (RCSU6); 13 from Aklan Provincial Highway Patrol Unit (HPU); one from Aklan Provincial Criminal Investigation and Detective Team (CIDT), and 166 augmentation personnel from PRO-6, part of which were the recently deployed 139 rookie policemen who underwent training on Civil Disturbance Management.
Since the closure and rehabilitation of Boracay affect the locals, resort owners, workers, among others, Malong said that they are trying to assume that rallies or any acts of violence will transpire in the area.
“There is a high probability that it will happen so we are really preparing for it,” she said.
Malong appealed for the cooperation of the public as they are also preparing for the incoming May 14 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections. (Cindy Ferrer/PNA)
