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Transcript
00:00Aside from the feast of Jesus Nazareno, the Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City and Ate-Atean Festival in Aklan are also being prepared.
00:09Zenn Kilantang-Sasa of GMA Regional TV has the first live news.
00:15Zenn?
00:18Egan, 8 competing tribes will again show their colorful and meaningful performances in the Dinagyang Festival this year.
00:26A few weeks before the highlights, the police are also preparing for the security check here in Iloilo City.
00:37The Iloilo City Police Office is urging to implement signal jamming in the highlights of the Dinagyang Festival 2025 from January 24 to January 26, 2025.
00:49The ICPO has already sent a letter to the Iloilo City Government and Iloilo Festivals Foundation Incorporated
00:56where they explained its intention to improve security and avoid any type of threat to the spectators and visitors.
01:04The whole day, we are aided by signal jamming, so maybe certain hours or certain time and certain areas here
01:19so that we can avoid the incidents of terrorism with the use of cell phone as the initiator of the devices.
01:36Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Trania does not favor the recommendation of signal jamming in Dinagyang if the police does not have a device.
01:45He wants to avoid those who are not in contact.
01:51Not only Iloilo City, even the neighboring towns affected, even up to the Gimaras.
01:58According to the PRO-6, they have a signal jamming device but the assessment is still ongoing if signal jamming will be needed in the Dinagyang celebration.
02:07Remember, there was no signal jamming implemented during Dinagyang 2024.
02:122,000 police personnel will be deployed by Police Regional Office 6 in Dinagyang Festival 2025.
02:18Four judging areas will serve this year.
02:22The Iloilo Freedom Grandstand, Iloilo Provincial Capitol, Mabini Delgado, and Quezon Ledesma.
02:28Eight tribes will fight.
02:30On Friday, January 10, the opening ceremony of the Iloilo Freedom Grandstand will start.
02:36The authorities will carry out traffic rerouting.
02:40Security will also be tightened in Calibus Senyor Santo Niño Ati-Atihan Festival 2025 from January 18 to January 19.
02:491,700 police personnel will be deployed there.
02:57Aside from the aforementioned judging areas, there are also various activities that will be held here in the city.
03:04The authorities are calling for cooperation with the public for the safety of the Dinagyang Festival 2025.
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