ILOILO CITY -- Iloilo City acting City Mayor Jose Espinosa III on Friday called on the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) and the Department of Education (DepEd) in Iloilo to step up their security measures amid reports of attempted abductions in several schools in this city.
Espinosa on Friday said that he met with Senior Superintendent Henry Biñas, acting ICPO director, on Thursday and informed him about an incident where a student of a private school here was held inside a van and interviewed by alleged doctors.
“I told him to be vigilant and increase (police) visibility in schools,” he said.
He also called on the Superintendent Claire Zamora of DepEd Iloilo City Division to ensure that there are guards in schools.
Espinosa said he was made to know of two similar cases so far.
The Central Philippine University also warned their students about the modus, he said.
For whatever purpose, parents are urged to brief their children to report to authorities if there are unidentified individuals who approach them and invite them to board their vehicles, he added.
Meantime, Espinosa will have a closed door meeting with the ICPO, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), and the City Legal Office next week.
He said that they will tackle among others the “mobile drug den,” as a new modus of drug users to evade authorities.
On Wednesday, 12 persons were arrested while having a pot session inside a van parked along a circumferential road in Barangay San Jose in Arevalo district. (PNA)
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