By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) raised its status to full alert as they gear up for the Timeout Weekend from Aug 28 to 31, 2020.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Ariel Pico, BCPO’s public information officer, said border control points was established within the city starting Aug 27.
Under the timeout weekend, mass testing for 5,000 symptomatic residents of Bacolod is scheduled from Aug 28 to 29.
Pico said more police officers will be deployed to the streets, along with some force multipliers to ensure that nobody will violate the order of the local government unit during the period.
A team of eight officers will be assigned to man more than 30 border control check-up points here, he said.
Vehicles will have to stop by check-up points so that police officers can check their identification cards and documents especially for those exempted from the lockdown.
He said non-residents will not be allowed to enter the city, except for essential workers.
Violators will be facing charges.
