PNP to host Asean police summit in 2014

THE Philippine National Police (PNP) will be hosting the meeting of top police officials from countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) 10 years after the annual event was last held in Manila.

The PNP's hosting of the next Asean Association of Chiefs of Police (Aseanapol) Conference in May 2014 was approved by a joint communiqué ratified at the 33rd conference held last week in Pattaya, Thailand.

PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima said it is a "great honor" to host the annual international event and a "wonderful opportunity for the country to open its doors to our Asean neighbors and showcase the country's pride of more fun in the Philippines."

The first Aseanapol conference was held in Manila in 1981 and has since been hosted by other member-agencies.

The Philippines, a founding member of the Aseanapol, last hosted the annual summit in September 2003.

Other national police agencies represented in the Aseanapol are the Royal Brunei Police Force, Cambodian National Police Force, Indonesian National Police, Myanmar Police Force, Singapore Police Force, Socialist Republic of Vietnam Police, Royal Thai Police, Royal Malaysia Police, and Lao People’s Democratic Republic Police Force.

Also invited to attend the conference are observer delegations from the Asean Secretariat, ICPO-Interpol, Australian Federal Police, National Police Agency of Japan, New Zealand Police, Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China, and the National Police Agency of the Republic of Korea, and Timor Leste. (Emmanuel Louis Bacani/Sunnex)

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