THE Police Regional Office (PRO11) in Davao Region and the Department of Education (Deped) in Davao Region are all set in securing the opening of classes on Monday, June 4.
PRO-Davao spokesperson Chief Inspector Milgrace Driz said the PRO and its respective police offices in the region also joined the Brigada Eskwela.
Driz said the Philippine National Police shall establish Police Assistance Desks (Pads) in all school campuses/clustered schools nationwide to provide public safety and security coverage and to provide EOD-K9 to conduct paneling to school vicinity.
She added that police visibility operation will also be intensified along major routes leading to all learning institutions and within the immediate vicinity of the schools to prevent cases of bullying and modus operandi like budol-budol.
"All the units of the region in coordination with the local government units shall strictly implement the prohibition of overloading of buses jeeps and other public utility vehicles to avoid accidents and other similar incidents," Driz said.
Likewise, Driz said, authorities shall strictly implement zoning ordinances prohibiting the existence of computer shops, billiard establishments and other destructive games and recreation within the immediate vicinity of schools.
She said the police will caution the students to be wary of strangers and to refrain from talking to them and to avoid wearing expensive jewelry and bringing large amounts of money or from using expensive phones while in the streets.
Driz said they are encouraging everyone to report any incidents of bullying and other street crimes to police officers assign in the respective Pads and to the nearest police stations or contact the police hotline numbers or the 911.