(Eagle News) — All of the security agencies of the country are already on full alert for the Association of South East Nations (ASEAN) Summit next month, National Organizing Committee for ASEAN Ambassador Marciano Paynor said.
Lead agencies include the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the Presidential Security Group (PSG), which will handle the security of the state leaders.
Twenty-one world leaders are expected to attend the ASEAN Summit that will be simultaneously held in Manila and Clark, Pampanga from November 11 to 14.
Paynor said that the full security alert was to avoid any uncertainties.
“It will be highest alert. Red alert is as far as I know is the highest number. But even with just red alert, it will be even higher than that,” he said during a Palace news conference.
“All of the security elements within the areas of where the leaders will be, will be on full security alert. The whole country will also be on alert because we would not want anything happening anywhere in the Philippines during those days,” he added.
