MANILA, Feb. 6 -- Nearly 1,500 police personnel would secure Chinese New Year celebrations, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Tuesday.

PNP chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. said the deployment of these police officers will be in effect until Feb. 15.

"I am giving the directive to our police personnel to provide the appropriate security measures para hindi naman magkagulo (to prevent any untoward incident) and this will be done specifically in some areas where there a lot of Chinese, especially in Chinatown kailangan mabantayan yan (to provide security) and we have deployed a total of 1,457 on separate dates and several locations," Acorda told reporters.

The figure includes 92 commissioned officers and 1,365 noncommissioned officer...