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PNP vows safe New Year's revelry

Published Dec 30, 2022 12:46 pm

The Philippine National Police (PNP) promised to keep the celebration of the New Year’s Day safe by patrolling the streets and ensuring fireworks are used in allowed areas only.

FIRECRACKERS sold in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap)

Aside from major transportation terminals, markets, and malls, the PNP will also deploy cops to designated community fireworks display areas as part of their monitoring of the New Year’s celebration, PNP spokesperson Police Col. Jean Fajardo said on Friday, Dec. 30.

“We will focus our deployment to designated community fireworks display areas to make sure these are safe for use by the residents. We are coordinating with our counterparts from the BFP (Bureau of Fire Protection) and LDRRMC (local disaster risk reduction and management council) to make this happen,” Fajardo said in a radio interview with DZBB.

“We want to make sure that firefighting equipment such as firetrucks and fire extinguishers are prepared in barangays. We also tapped BPATs (barangay peacekeeping action teams) to disseminate information among the public that the use of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices are only allowed in designated areas,” she added.

Based on Executive Order No. 28 issued by former president Rodrigo Duterte in 2017, fireworks should be confined to designated display areas.

Last Dec. 29, the PNP has started its campaign against the use and sale of illegal firecrackers.

Since then, nine individuals have been arrested while 27,829 pieces of illegal firecrackers worth P361,000 were confiscated by the PNP, according to Fajardo.

The PNP spokesperson said that individuals who will be caught using firecrackers outside the designated areas may face imprisonment.

"We will arrest them because it is a clear violation of Executive Order No. 28 which mandates the use of fireworks in common fireworks display areas only. We can effect warrantless arrests especially against those who will be caught in the act of committing a crime. They will be inquest for violation of Republic Act 7183," she added.

RA 7183 is the law which regulates the sale, manufacture, and use of firecrackers and other pyrotechnic devices.

Both RA 7183 and EO 28 enumerate the firecrackers which are regulated for sale and use including baby rocket, bawang, El Diablo, Judas' Belt, paper caps, pulling of strings, sky rocket (kwitis), small triangle.

Meanwhile, prohibited firecrackers include watusi, piccolo, pop pop, five star, pla-pla, Lolo Thunder, giant bawang, giant whistle bomb, atomic bomb, Super Lolo, atomic triangle, Goodbye Bading, big Judas' Belt, Goodbye Philippines, Goodbye Delima, Bin Laden, Hello Columbia, Mother Rockets, Goodbye Napoles, Coke-in-can, Super Yolanda, pillbox, boga, kriton, and kabasi.

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