COTABATO CITY โ The officials and members of the Peace, Public Order, Safety and Security Committee (PPOSSCom) convened on Thursday, March 9, 2023, to hold the committeeโs first regular meeting for calendar year 2023 held at the BPDA Conference Hall 2, Bangsamoro Government Center, this city.
Abdul Rahman Macapendeg, who represented Minister Hussein P. Muรฑoz, committee chairperson and minister of the Ministry of Public Order and Safety (MPOS), presided the said meeting together with Engr. Kadil A. Sulaik, Director for Research Development and Special Projects Bureau, who represented Engr. Mohajirin T. Ali, committee co-chairperson and director general of the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority (BPDA).
The said meeting highlighted the committeeโs approval on the application of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD-BARMM), Bureau of Immigration-BARMM District, and Office for Other Bangsamoro Communities to its roster of members.
Among the agreements passed by the committee is the drafting of a โResolution to review the settings of barriers/roadblocks/warning signs of all military and police checkpoints established in the BARMMโ and a โResolution declaring communist terrorists persona non-grata in the BARMM.โ These two resolutions will ensure the safety of motorists passing the military and police checkpoints and would help weed off the communist terrorists operating in the region.
Also present were representatives from the Ministry of Interior and Local Government (MILG), Ministry of Indigenous Peopleโs Affair (MIPA), Bangsamoro Women Commission (BWC), Bangsamoro Youth Commission (BYC), Police Regional Office โ Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR), National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM-BARMM), Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-BARMM), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI-BARMM), Coast Guard District (CGD-BARMM), Bangsamoro Rapid Emergency Action and Disaster Incidence (READi), and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP-BARMM).
As the committeeโs technical secretariat, the PPOSSD Division of the BPDA will prepare the said resolutions that will be forwarded by the committee to the BEDC for its review and approval. (๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ฟ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐-๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐ ๐. ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐)