BACOLOD City – Forty police officers from the Regional Mobile Force Battalion (RMFB) in Western Visayas were deployed in this city to help enforced the modified enhanced community quarantine.
Lieutenant Colonel Ariel Pico, spokesperson of the Bacolod City Police Office, said the augmentation teams were deployed on Sept. 9 in the 35 outer and inner border control checkup points in this city.
Prior to their deployment, the teams were previously assigned in Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental, according to Pico.
Pico reminded the transportation sector that police authorities will strictly implement Mayor Evelio Leonardia’s Executive Order No. 60.
One of the provisions in the said directive is “no public transportation” while the city is under a strict community regime.
As of Wednesday, Western Visayas currently has 6,632 total cumulative confirmed cases.
The new cases were from Negros Occidental with 126; Bacolod City, 109; Iloilo City, 11; Iloilo province, three; and Guimaras, one./PN
