VOL.11 ISSUE 238 • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2019
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TRAINING. An instructor from the Explosive Ordnance Division of Davao City Police Office (DCPO) gives a lecture on the different explosives to participants during the firsrcday of Abbreviated Explosive Ordnance Reconnaisance Agent (EORA) and Water Search and Rescue training held at Camp Domingo Leonor compound in Davao City on Tuesday. Lean Daval Jr
MASSIVE PRO 11 set to deploy over 1,000 personnel for‘Araw’ By ADAM B. MORRELL
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he Police Regional Office in Davao region (PRO 11) will deploy more than 1,000 police personnel during the celebration of 82nd Araw ng Davao.
This was bared by PRO 11 director Chief Supt. Marcelo C. Morales at the sidelines of Tuesday’s regular session of the Sanguniang Panglungsod on Tuesday, February 19. The massive deployment is an augmentation to ensure the security during the annual celebration which usually happens in March. The security plan for the month-long city-wide festival is still being discussed, Mo-
rales said. Davao Region, according to Morales, is on a level two alert. However, the PNP still maintains a full alert status and constantly avoids complacency considering threats from communists, New People’s Army (NPA), terrorists and Muslim extremists are present anytime. “Dito (Davao Region) yung target of opportunity ng mga grupong ito because
this is the presidential region kaya iniingatan natin na maging biktima tayo ng mga ganitong klaseng atake,” Morales said. The PRO 11 chief, meanwhile, said police isp mandated to respond and assist in any event of disaster and calamity. “We have search and rescue team in every police unit in Davao Region,” he added. Meantime, the hotspot areas of the May 2019 elections are surprisingly decreasing with just three months left before election, accordng to
the police official. “Constant yung ating assessement and evaluation natin sa mga hotspot areas. As of now sa Davao City, nababawasan yung mga election watch list areas natin. Ganun din sa mga Municipalities, na do-downgrade din yung mga hotspots area because of the improving relationship between running political candidates,” he said. A tight security, however, is still being implemented in Compostela Valley, Davao del Norte and Davao del Sur.
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PRRD expected to okay law on 105-day maternity leave
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he Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) expressed confidence that President Rodrigo Duterte with respect to the consolidated enrolled bill, Senate Bill No. 1305/ House Bill No. 4113 on the Expanded Maternity Leave (EML) will reprise what he did as Davao City mayor when he approved Ordinance No. 5004 or The Women Development Code of Davao City which granted 90 days of maternity leave to all women employees in the public and private sector. “Workers expect President Duterte to ‘do a Davao’ like he did 22 years ago and sign the EML bill into a trail-blazing national law,” said TUCP President Rep. Raymond Mendoza. “With the President’s signing the measure into
law, our covered women workers will now have 105 days of maternity and infant protection. This is equal to Laos’ 105 days of maternity leave, better than the 90 days of Indonesia, exceeds Myanmar’s 98 days which is the same recommended 98 days of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and way short of Vietnam’s 180 days, “ explained Mendoza. “The expected signing of the measure will demonstrate to the entire world the country’s commitment and the government’s political will to provide the policy environment that save our babies from risky pregnancy and infancy and that protect the lives, health and jobs of our child-bearing working women,” said Associated Labor Unions (ALU) Vice President and IndustriALL
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