The African Swine Fever (ASF) Joint Task Force needs additional police assistance at the Banago Port in Bacolod City.
The policemen assigned by the Bacolod City Police Office to assist the task force are not enough, Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz said on Friday, November 4.
Diaz said he was tasked to ask the Negros Occidental Provincial Police Office for additional policemen to augment those deployed by the BCPO.
The drive to protect Negros Occidental and Bacolod City by preventing the entry of pigs and pork products from ASF hit areas is ongoing, and an additional P35,214 worth of the banned products from Iloilo and Capiz were seized from November 1 to 3, Diaz said.
The task force confiscated and burned P22,373 of the seized products and shipped back the rest.
In October the task force also seized 4,450.28 kgs. of pork products and piglets with an estimated market value of P448,125.10 at entry points in Negros Occidental and Bacolod City.*