Cebu City Cops Prepare Security Plan For Sinulog 2017

The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) is preparing a security plan for the Sinulog 2017 celebration which falls on the third Sunday of January, an official said.

Chief Insp. David Señor, CCPO operations division chief, said the preparation includes a walk-through of the Sinulog Grand Parade route which was conducted on Sunday.

Senor said he was accompanied in the walk-through inspection by the station commanders, the engineering department, the sponsors and the Cebu City Government.

Senor said he noted some minor obstacles in the parade route, but he assured the public that the Sinulog will push through.

“There will be a clearing operation three weeks before the Sinulog. Piles of construction materials that were placed after the road construction will be cleared, together with ambulant vendors and telephone cables,” he said.

Señor said five judging areas will be put up along the routes.

The assembly area will start with the contingents from Barangay Carreta to the area in front of the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) on P. Del Rosario up to N. Bacalso Ave.

It will cover the area of Sector 6, 7 and 8 where there will be no judges.

Almost 2,000 security personnel, which includes uniformed men, police in civilian clothes, university students, military, as well as the local government units, will be deployed for crowd control. (PNA)LAP/EB/EDS