Concurrent with the ongoing initiatives of harmonizing strategies, policies and procedures on matters of immigration, customs and quarantine (ICQ), business registration and operations in both the Subic and Clark Freeport Zones, the SCAD Council is undertaking steps to ensure that an effective security and safety system shall be installed in both Freeport Zones - a system that meets international standards for security and safety at Subic seaport and Clark airport.

Towards this end, a Technical Working Group (TWG) was created in November 2008 composed of representatives of CDC, SBMA, CIAC, Philippine National Police, Philippine Air Force, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), customs Police and the SCAD Council. Current representations are being made to get the services of an internationally recognized expert on port securityand safety to augment the study being made by the TWG.

The TWG has started to gather and review data in relation to internationally accepted practices and procedures, existing laws, treaties and agreements. By the middle of 2009, it is expected to begin drafting and updating existing security and safety policies and procedures. It is then projected to come up with a draft Manual on Security and Safety on Port Operations by August and to have the same printed and disseminated by September to the SCAD Council for review and approval. It is foreseen to be implemented the following month.