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'2 cops per quarantine facility' in NCR starts this week: DILG
The national government will deploy 594 police personnel to quarantine facilities in Metro Manila to enforce mandatory quarantine protocols as ordered by President Rodrigo Duterte.
This deployment aims to strengthen enforcement against individuals who breach their mandatory quarantine periods.
Interior Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya stated that the Philippine National Police (PNP) has sufficient manpower to assign two police officers to each of the 297 quarantine facilities in the capital region.
These facilities include those for mandatory quarantine, stringent quarantine, and accommodations for returning seafarers.
Additional police personnel will also be assigned to quarantine facilities nationwide.
The police officers assigned in Metro Manila will be drawn from mobile force battalions and those previously manning checkpoints.
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