The Philippines is seeking to set up a new contact point linking the country’s police with foreign embassies inside the country in a bid to better protect foreign tourists and expatriates, a senior official at the Philippine foreign affairs department on Tuesday said.
“Right now, we have a plan to set up a contact point which would be the main contact point whenever there are any incidents involving foreign nations so that there would be better coordination between my ministry, foreign embassies and police agencies,” Alex V. Lamadrid, senior special assistant at Office of the Undersecretary for Civilian Security and Consular Concerns, said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency.
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