The Police Regional Office (PRO) 12 (Soccsksargen) will put up additional security checkpoints in the region’s boundary areas in line with its intensified campaign against criminality and terrorism. Brig. Gen. Alexander Tagum, PRO-12 director, said Friday the new checkpoints would be established in strategic areas along the boundary highways of the region’s four provinces and four cities. Tagum said the checkpoints would be operated by personnel of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion 12, which is tasked to monitor people and vehicles entering the region. “This is part of our security preparations for the Christmas season and the upcoming elections,” he
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) targets to provide enterprise-based training to 400 Customer Services NC II trainees next year through its partnership with the SM Foundation, Inc. (SMFI), Secretary Isidro Lapeña said on Friday. TESDA-Region III inked an agreement with SMFI last November 19 for the apprenticeship program. “We are looking forward to expand this to other regions and to implement it nationwide. But for now, our focus is on this new TESDA Region III-SMFI partnership,” Lapeña told the Philippine News Agency. He said training immediately started on the same day of the signing of the agreement.
