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Manila Bulletin devider Philippines devider National devider Eleazar orders PNP commanders to identify police camps that could be used as vaccination sites

Eleazar orders PNP commanders to identify police camps that could be used as vaccination sites

Published May 19, 2021 08:42 am

Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Wednesday, May 19, all police regional and provincial directors to start coordinating with the Department of Health for the identification of police camps that could be used as vaccination sites amid the the declaration of the National Task Force on COVID-19 that it would start the inoculation of essential workers and indigent Filipinos by next month.

Anticipating the large number of people who would troop to police camps once they are declared as vaccination sites, Eleazar also tasked his commanders to start preparing vaccination security plan in order to prevent crowding and other untoward incident that may happen during the inoculation period.

“Bukas ng pintuan ng bawat kampo ng pulis sa adhikaing ito at kung kinakailangan, handa po ang inyong PNP na sunduin at ihatid ang ating mga kababayan na babakunahan (Police camps are open to be converted as vaccination sites. The PNP is even ready to transport those who would be vaccinated from and to their communities if necessary),” said Eleazar.

Eleazar's statement came after vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. announced that police and military camps would be used as vaccination sites for the A4 priority sector as more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine shipments arrive in the country. Inoculation for the A4 category in the vaccine priority list, which includes security forces, fire personnel, and those working in customs and immigration, may take place in the last week of May.

“Naglabas na ako ng utos sa ating mga Regional at Provincial Directors na tukuyin ang mga kampo na puwedeng gawing vaccination sites at maghanda na rin dahil sinabi ni Secretary Galvez na malamang sa susunod na buwan ay mag-umpisa na ang pagbabakuna sa mas maraming bilang nga mga Pilipino. (I already directed our Regional and Provincial police directors to identify police camps that could be used as vaccination sites because Secretary Galvez said that they may start vaccination of more people that include essential workers and indigent Filipinos. We will submit the list to the NTF COVID-19 of all the camps that could be used, including the protocols that we would implement for the vaccination,” said Eleazar.

Eleazar said police camps would make good vaccination sites because of their wide, open spaces where proper physical distancing will definitely be observed once the administration of vaccines takes place in these areas.

Eleazar added, “Nasisiguro kong walang siksikan kapag dito ginawa ang bakunahan. Hindi na rin tayo kailangang magdeploy ng mga pulis para bantayan ang bakunahan dahil naroon na sila mismo sa loob ng kampo (I am sure that there will be no crowding if the vaccination is held in police camps. We do not need to deploy our policemen to secure vaccination sites since it would happen right inside the camps).”

He said he plans to confer with Secretary Galvez on the use of police camps as inoculation hubs.

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