Police forces to proactively respond to Storm Tembin

PSNews - The Steering Committee for Climate Change Response, Disaster Prevention and Rescue under the Ministry of Public Security on December 23 issued a dispatch requiring all public security forces to proactively respond to Storm Tembin (2017's 16th storm).
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Lieutenant General Pham Quang Cu, Deputy Director of the General Department of Logistics and Techniques, as a deputy head of the Steering Committee for Climate Change Response, Disaster Prevention and Rescue under the Ministry of Public Security, signed the dispatch on December 23.

The dispatch was sent to the steering committees for climate change response, disaster prevention and recue of the General Departments, High Commands, the fire police departments of provinces from Quang Nam to Binh Thuan and other Southern provinces.

Police officers helping people in floods. Photo for illustration.
Police officers helping people in floods. Photo for illustration.

To actively respond to the intensive tropical storm, the Steering Committee for Climate Change Response, Disaster Prevention and Rescue under the Ministry of Public Security asks all above mentioned units to:

Strictly implement dispatch 95 / CD-TW issued on December 23, 2017 by the Permanent Office of the Central Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention, and the Office of the National Committee for Search and Rescue;

Coordinate with the functional units to ensure safety for people and vessels at shelters;

Evacuate people from unsafe areas; strictly observe the ban on going to the sea issued by the Chairman of the provincial, municipal People's Committees;

Closely monitor developments of the storm with rains and floods from the mass media to actively coordinate with relevant units in ensuring safety for people and assets;

Direct the traffic police to support people in dangerous places on the road;

Draw up plans to protect documents, means and working facilities of the public security forces safely;

Deploy forces to be on 24/24h duty and to periodically report the Permanent Office of the Steering Committee for Climate Change Respond, Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Search and Rescue on the local situation and developments of the storm and other related natural disasters in the locality.

Over the next three hours, storm Tembin, the sixteenth of this year, will pass south of Palawan Island of the Philippines and enter the East Sea, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
Over the next 24 hours, Tembin will move west north-west at a high speed of 20-25km per hour and is likely to gain strength.
Over the next 24 hours, Tembin will move west north-west at a high speed of 20-25km per hour and is likely to gain strength.

Over the next 24 hours, Tembin will move west north-west at a high speed of 20-25km per hour and is likely to gain strength.

Over the next 24-48 hours, the storm will primarily continue its west track at a speed of 25 kph and will likely get stronger. The dangerous area in the East Sea will see strong winds gusting up to 6 category or more.

Over the next 48-72 hours, the storm will move in a west direction at 20-25 kph.

Typhoon Tembin's wind power is forecast to be at 13 category when entering Big Truong Sa (Spratly) Island of the Truong Sa archipalego.

In an urgent telegram on December 23, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked provinces and cities from Ba Ria-Vung Tau to Ca Mau and relevant agencies to be well- prepared for the powerful storm.

He underlined the need to prepare rescue plans and relief aid, and to disseminate information on the latest developments of the storm as well as the potential natural disaster.

By Phung Nguyen

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