PNP News Releases 2006

P N P News Release No. 06-0822
Authority : POLICE SENIOR SUPT SAMUEL D PAGDILAO, JR. PNP
Public Information Office, Camp Crame, Quezon City
Telefax: (632) 7253179 Fax: (632) 7255115 Email: pio@pnp.gov.ph
Date : Friday, 01 September 2006

 

POLICE UNITS ALERTED AGAINST TERRORISTS

The Philippine National Police high command today ordered all Police Regional Offices and National Support Units to implement security measures to thwart any attempt by local terrorist groups to stage "sympathy attacks" in connection with the fifth anniversary of the infamous 9/11 incident in the US.

In a Memorandum, PNP Director for Operations, Chief Superintendent Wilfredo Garcia said "intelligence information received revealed that extremist groups both local and foreign plan to stage terrorist activities to coincide with the 9/11 anniversary."

"In view of this, you are hereby directed to implement the 3-Tiered Defense System in your respective areas of responsibility," Garcia said in the Memorandum to police commanders.

The 3-Tiered Defense System is a strategic measure that involves Intelligence, Target-hardening, and Incident Management as a pro-active response against terrorist threats.

According to PNP Spokesman, Senior Superintendent Samuel Pagdilao Jr., the 3-Tiered Defense System has proven very effective on several occasions against activities of domestic and transnational terrorist groups operating in the country.

"Although there is no direct or imminent threat of terrorism on a specific target, we must remain vigilant and on alert at all times against an unseen enemy," Pagdilao said.

This developed as the Aviation Security Group clarified that they are not aware of any anti-terrorism exercise that was supposedly conducted in the middle of last month in the country's international airports and domestic air terminals.

Chief Supt Andres Caro of the Aviation Security Group said all airport security forces went on high alert in response to the London incident last month when British authorities arrested several persons allegedly planning to detonate liquid explosives aboard trans-Atlantic flights from Europe.

However, Caro said, there was no "anti-terrorism exercise" purportedly involving some 50 aviation security personnel that they are aware of at that time.