PRO3 CONTINUES CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL FIRECRACKERS

By KEVIN GALANG

CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga — Police Regional Office 3 director Brig. Gen. Jose Hidalgo Jr. on Wednesday personally visited firecracker stores and warehouses in Bocaue, Bulacan in a last-ditch effort to prevent the manufacture, distribution and sale of banned and dangerous firecracker products in the market which could be used for New Year’s Eve revelry,

With the Central Luzon top cop during the inspection were Bocaue Vice Mayor Sherwin Tugna, Bulacan police commander Col. Relly Arnedo and Bureau of Fire Protection personnel.

The annual inspection and auditing are done so that the police leadership will find out if there are loopholes in the campaign against illegal fireworks that will also help them craft strategies to prevent the proliferation of prohibited firecrackers and pyrotechnic materials.

The move was in line with Republic Act 7183  or An Act Regulating the Sale, Manufacture, Distribution, and Use of Firecrackers and other Pyrotechnic Devices.

Hidalgo also checked the permits and license to operate of dealers in compliance with Republic Act 7183, MO 31 and EO 28.   

“I would like to remind the public that firecrackers such as 

piccolo, watusi, giant whistle bomb, giant bawang, large Judas belt, super lolo/thunder lolo, atomic bomb, atomic big triangulo, pillbox, boga, kwiton, goodbye earth, goodbye bading, hello Columbia, coke-in-can, kabasi, og, other unlabeled and imported firecrackers are all prohibited by our law,” the Central Luzon top cop said.