MANILA, 21 March (PIA) -- Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, together with other government officials, have assured the Republic of Korea (ROK) that government has initiated measures to ensure the safety and protection of foreign nationals, particularly Korean nationals in the country.
Roxas relayed to Korean embassy officials that Pres. Aquino "values very much the close relations the country has with Korea.''
He said Mr. Aquino instructed the Philippine government officials to employ a ''whole of government approach to address security concerns of Korean nationals in the Philippines.''
In a briefing held in Camp Aguinaldo this afternoon, PNP CSupt. Ericson Velasquez enumerated the PNP's efforts to ensure the safety of Korean nationals in the country:
A. Created the Korean Desk to monitor cases involving Korean nationals.
B. Implemented the National Tourist-Oriented Police for Community Order and Protection (NTOPCOP) Program, where 2,344 tourist policemen in 25 Tourist Police Units and 1,978 Tourist Assistance Desks (TADS) nationwide as of Sept. 2014;
C. Assigned two teams from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) - Major Investigation Unit to resolve cold cases involving Korean nationals. A cold case is any criminal investigation by a law enforcement agency which yielded negative results for six months;
D. Created the Foreign National Keeper Network (FNKN) program, where foreign nationals are recruited by the local police units as points of contact between the police and their embassies to relay important information relative to security and security while in the Philippines;
E. Conducted Korean language and culture familiarization training for PNP personnel to address the concern on language barrier in communicating with Korean nationals;
F. Conducted briefings and lectures for Korean nationals in the country on safety and personal protection and;
G. Closely coordinated with the Korean embassy and the Korean National Police regarding the issue.
Other government officials who attended were Secretaries Albert Del Rosario (DFA), Voltaire Gazmin (DND), Ramon Jimenez (DOT), Gregory Domingo (DTI), Phippine Ambassador to Korea Raul Hernandez, and AFP Chief-of-staff Gen. Gregorio Catapang.
For his part, Korean Ambassador to the Philippines Lee Hyuk thanked the PNP and the Armed Forces of the Philippines on the security concerns of Koreans in the Philippines. (DILG/RJB/JCP/PIA-NCR)
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