{"id":105963,"date":"2017-06-19T20:05:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T00:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=105963"},"modified":"2017-06-19T20:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T00:05:59","slug":"casino-internal-security-officers-should-be-under-pnp-sosia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/06\/19\/casino-internal-security-officers-should-be-under-pnp-sosia\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino internal security officers should be under PNP-SOSIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_105964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105964\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antipolo-City-Rep.-Romeo-Acop-chair-of-the-House-committee-on-public-order-and-safety.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105964\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antipolo-City-Rep.-Romeo-Acop-chair-of-the-House-committee-on-public-order-and-safety.jpg\" alt=\"Antipolo City Rep. Romeo Acop, chair of the House committee on public order and safety. (PNA photo)\" width=\"683\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antipolo-City-Rep.-Romeo-Acop-chair-of-the-House-committee-on-public-order-and-safety.jpg 683w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Antipolo-City-Rep.-Romeo-Acop-chair-of-the-House-committee-on-public-order-and-safety-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antipolo City Rep. Romeo Acop, chair of the House committee on public order and safety. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A lawmaker at the House of Representatives is pushing for the registration of all internal security units of licensed casino establishments in the country with the Philippine National Police-Supervisory Office for Security and Investigation Agencies (PNP-SOSIA).<\/p>\n<p>Antipolo City Rep. Romeo Acop, chair of the House committee on public order and safety, made the proposal during a recent joint committee hearing on the security lapses during the Resorts World Manila (RWM) attack that left 37 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>Acop proposed to the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) to register the internal security units of all licensed casino operators with the PNP-SOSIA<\/p>\n<p>Acop is also planning to come up with a bill to support his proposal, which gained the backing of Pagcor vice president Roderick Consolacion.<\/p>\n<p>The Antipolo lawmaker cited the need to strengthen the competency of the internal security units of casinos after the House committees discovered lapses in security on the part of RWM.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Muntinlupa City Rep. Rufino Biazon questioned the fire safety inspection certificate (FSIC) issued to RWM.<\/p>\n<p>Biazon raised the issue of which agency has the authority to enforce the country\u2019s fire code in establishments, including casinos, duly registered with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is our firm belief that the Bureau of Fire (BFP) has the authority,&#8221; said Biazon.<\/p>\n<p>He said the PEZA is prohibited from issuing FSIC without a memorandum of agreement with the BFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is our position that the law passed by Congress in 2008 is the one that is prevailing over the law of PEZA which was passed a decade before the fire code,&#8221; Biazon said.<\/p>\n<p>Under Republic Act 9514 or the Revised Fire Code of the Philippines, the BFP is given the legal mandate to enforce the fire code of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A lawmaker at the House of Representatives is pushing for the registration of all internal security units of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":105964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}