KEEP a cool head.
This was the advice of Police Regional Office-Central Visayas Director Debold Sinas on the supporters of candidates running for the 2019 midterm elections.
"Just relax and don't fight. Because at the end of the day, after the elections, you still live in the same place," Sinas said.
Sinas inspected the police stations in the southern part of Cebu including San Fernando, which had a lot of election-related incidents.
Sinas said they deployed additional augmentation and K9 units to beef up the security in San Fernando.
San Fernando Police Station chief Police Major Lymel Pasquin said they are on the lookout for various reports of vote buying activities, liquor and illegal firearms.
A military tank and personnel from the Armed Forces of Philippines Central Command is also on standby and will be deployed in the hinterland Barangay Magsico, which is strategic, to respond to any possible incidents that might come up during the elections.
The Commission on Elections recently identified the town of San Fernando as a "hotspot" along wth 19 others.
San Fernando town was placed under orange category.
Category Orange are areas with yellow conditions as well as serious armed threats posed by domestic terror groups and other analogous armed groups.