The Davao City Police Office has advised the public not to simultaneously go to their departed loved one’s graves during Undas.
They should not also post their whereabouts in the social media this up-coming Undas 2018 because this might entice the thieves to do their unlawful acts.
“We request everyone not to simultaneously go in the cemeteries to avoid robbery in their houses which happened last year,” Senior Inspector Maria Terisita Gaspan, spokesperson of DCPO said during the weekly AFP-PNP Press Corps Southern Mindanao press conference at The Royal Mandaya Hotel on Wednesday.
She said that on 2017 there were cases of robbery recorded because no one was left in the house or the locks were not secured properly.
She said if the family has to go to their province they should secure their houses and tell a trusted person or neighbor to watch the house for them while they are away.
Meanwhile, DCPO told the media that they are already prepared for Undas 2018.
“We have actually prepared more than the usual security plan. There will be an inner layer which will be composed of security personnel tasked to secure the people inside the cemetery; the middle layer will be tasked to manage the traffic especially in the areas where in major cemetery are located and the outer layer will be the be tasked to establish check-points in the outer layer of the city,” Gaspan said in She said that there are 214 cemeteries in the city, 58 of which are major cemeteries and all of that will have security personnel deployed.
“Soft deployment will be on October 30,” she said.
Security personnel will be deployed until November 4, 2018.
She reminded the public to abide with the do’s and don’ts during Undas. She said that the public should bear in mind not to bring guns, knives, alcoholic liquor and gambling paraphernalia.
