DAVAO CITY- About P2.5-million worth of
equipment to deal with incidents relating to explosive and ordinance was
donated to the Davao City Police Office.
The turn-over ceremony was held at DCPO
headquarters in Camp Domingo Leonor yesterday (January 19.) high-ranking city
and regional police officials led by Senior Superintendent Marvin Pepino deputy
city director for administration and Senior Supt. Restito Gatera, Regional
Logistics and Supply Division head attended the affair.
One of the new equipment is a bomb suit
(EOD 9). The suit can protect bomb-disposal experts withstand impact of an
explosion from a 60mm mortar. Another equipment is a bomb disruptor used to
disrupt the detonation of improvised explosive devices.
The equipment is part of a donation
from the United States Government course through the Philippine National Police
which was turned over last year. Among the equipment include post-blast
investigation kits and explosives incidents countermeasure kits.
The PNP in turn donated some of the
equipment to the DCPO. Senior Superintendent Gatera said the equipment provides
more protection to the DCPO EOD team as they are the ones responding to EOD
related incidents hence they must be well-equipped.
DCPO spokersperson chief inspector
Milgrace Driz said the equipment would be of big help to the EOD team
particularly in responding to situations like bombing incidents.
A spate of bombing incidents rocked
parts of Mindanao in 2014 and 2015, one of those incidents occurred in Davao
City November 18 last year, when a bomb exploded in a passenger van while
traversing Ecoland in this City, two people were wounded in the explosion.
(PIA/RG Alama)
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