IBA, Zambales – The Zambales Police Provincial Office (ZPPO director, Col. Ponce Rogelio Peñones, Jr., spearhead the creation of the Zambales Inter-Agency Task Force on Environmental Protection with the signing of a memorandum of agreement among concerned entities.
The MOA was signed by the Zambales Police Provincial Office, Zambales Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office, Zambales Provincial Task Force Kalikasan, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources provincial office, Philippine Coast Guard, 33rd Mechanized Company, and 302nd Maritime Police Station.
The MOA aims to “intensify the anti-criminality operations of Zambales PPO through the implementation of enhanced-managing police operations, working in partnership with the inter-agency task force in order to harmonize and rationalize the government efforts in the implementation of environmental laws, ordinances, other administrative issuances, thereby establishing/ creating the Zambales Inter-Agency Task Force on Environmental Protection.”
Zambales Vice Gov. Jeff erson Khonghun standing witness to the MOA signing said: “Maganda itong nagsama-sama ang bawat ahensiya ng gobyerno sa Zambales at handa ang provincial government sa ano mang tulong maipagkakaloob para sa implementasyon ng Task Force on Environment Protection.”
Meanwhile, Neil Encinares of the BFAR provincial office revealed that dynamite fishing is still practiced in the coastal towns of San Antonio, Cabangan, Iba, and Sta. Cruz.
