An ordinance penalizing any person who will cross or breach a police line cordon at any crime scene in Bacolod City, was passed by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod on third and reading yesterday.
The ordinance authored by Councilor El Cid Familiaran, chairman of the SP Committee on Police and Security, provides a fine of P3,000 or an imprisonment of 15 days or both, at the discretion of the Court, for those who violate the law. The ordinance said the hostage-taking incident in Manila on August 2010 that cost many lives and injured several others, shocked the country and strained international relation with China, is a serious reminder of how inept and ill-equipped the concerned law enforcement agencies are in responding to crisis situation. Focused on by TV camera, a yellow cloth strip with words “POLICE LINE, DO NOT CROSS” is seen at the scene of the crime installed a few meters from the hostage taking to warn the bystanders and non-law enforcers to stay away, however to be ignored and violated by them but it was ignored by curious onlookers. Meanwhile, the SP also approved a resolution authored by Councilor Sonya Verdeflor urging Mayor Evelio Leonardia as honorary chairperson of the city’s reconstituted Task Force Clean and Green to start and operationalize the task force effective January 2012 and soliciting the mayor’s office full support for its projects and activities.*CGS CHRYSEE SAMILLANO Visayan Daily Star
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