"The Mobile Command Control Center will be used for the first time to monitor security situation in locations whose security must be guaranteed," Chief of the Jakarta Police Operation Bureau, Senior Commissioner Sujarno said here on Wednesday.
He said the center on a mobile truck could be used as a command and control center for interviews and video conference to the Police Headquarters, Regional Police throughout Indonesia and Liaison Officials in Kuala Lumpur.
"Besides that, in the current ASEAN Summit event, we could monitor through a screen the trips of the ASEAN heads of state/government from the airports, hotels up to the conference venue," Sujarno said.
All areas with regard to the arrivals, hotels and travel routes of the heads of state/government have been connected with and monitored through the screen of the ASEAN Summit security post, he said.
A total of 7,000 military and police personnel are deployed to secure the summit from May 4 to May 8, 2011.
In the meantime, Chief of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI)`s General Affairs Lt Gen. Suryo Prabowo said the military continued to solidify security precautions for the 18th ASEAN Summit against all kinds of threats, including bomb threats.
"We still continue to solidify preparations and coordinate security measures," Suryo, who is the chief of the 18th ASEAN Summit`s Security Operations Command, said here on Wednesday.
He said that the military had prepared contingency plans and scenarios to anticipate security problems in the ASEAN Summit 2011, including bomb threats.
Bomb threat scenarios were set in a drill on the sidelines of the visit of Vice President Boediono who observed the ASEAN Summit preparations on Wednesday.
"We have made various security threat scenarios such as bombings and their anticipatory measures in the way of an exercise," the chief of general staff of the army, Lt Gen S Suryo Prabowo, said here on Wednesday.
(Uu.A014/HAJM)
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