DAVAO CITY, July 17 (PIA) Authorities have imposed stricter security measures at the Davao International Airport after Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ordered a heightened alert due to impending terror threat.
Vehicles and baggage are checked more thoroughly by airport security personnel as they enter the facility.
Engr. Agnes Udang, local chief of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines and manager of the DIA urged incoming passengers to follow procedures to avoid delay and to ensure their safety.
“We still follow the same procedure. People just have to abide with it for their safety,” she said.
Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas met Mayor Duterte and the local police in July 2 to show and personally convey his support to the people amid the latest security threat in the city.
The police and military have been on heightened alert upon Duterte’s order after Pres. Aquino personally called Duterte to inform him of an intelligence report on the presence of terrorists in the city.
Police and military have set up checkpoints in strategic areas in the city and police patrolling the streets have increased. (PIA 11-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines)
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