Unitary Police Service (SPU) Commissioner-General Ma Io Kun said yesterday that the Public Security Forces will spend 43.3 million patacas on buying new disaster relief equipment this year.
Ma made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the government’s civil protection structure – which consists of 29 government entities and private organisations – at the Immigration Department Building in Pac On in Taipa, where the government’s Civil Protection Operations Centre is located.
Delivering a speech during the meeting, Ma noted that the government has been carrying out a raft of tasks and measures with the aim of improving the city’s civil protection since deadly Super Typhoon Hato devastated the city in 2017, such as formulating an evacuation plan for storm surges, the setting-up of various emergency shelters and emergency assembly and pick-up points across the city, and the setting-up of a broadcasting and alarm system for residents in the city’s low-lying areas.
A Macau Customs Service officer briefs participants in yesterday’s meeting of the government’s civil protection structure, including Unitary Police Service (SPU) Commissioner-General Ma Io Kun (front, second from left), about new disaster relief equipment, at the Immigration Department Building in Pac On in Taipa. Photo: GCS
