Measures in jails need more teeth
A police official who has led several drug operations that resulted in drug haul worth millions of pesos has asked jail officials to strengthen measures against contrabands as drug network inside jail facilities has grown wider.
Police Chief Inspector “Jaguar” Diaz. Regino Maramag Jr., the chief Maramag supports the of Pardo police station, made plan of Police Regional Office the statement after the arrest, Director Chief Superintendent of Danilo de la Cerna, 23, a Debold Sinas to install signal resident of Barangay Tisa, jammers inside jail facilities Cebu City in Cogon, Pardo. in order to cut off connections He yielded P13.6 million of drug dealers with drug worth of shabu. players in the jail.
Maramag said de la “Dapat gawin nila Cerna served as “bodegero” (BJMP) share nila, na for a certain Ogie Roxas who istriktuhon ang cellphones. was previously arrested for Isa yan sa giplan ang signal illegal-drugs and now serving jamming, na lagyan ng signal jail time in Cebu City Jail. jammer, kasi duon lahat ng
De la Cerna is also transaction. May nahabilin in cahoots with two other players dito, but halos lahat sources who are still at large. nandun na sa luob, so useless
He added that de la gihapon ang dakop diri,” Cerna is a “close friend” Maramag said. (BJMP should of slain drug lord Jeffrey implement not allow inmates to use cellphone. Installing signal jammers is one option. There are players inside the jail which means our efforts here outside are useless.)
Cebu City Police Office director Senior Superintendent Royina Garma also told The FREEMAN that they are coordinating with BJMP to address the security concerns.
However, she said that she understands that most BJMP are careful not to violate human rights of visitors since security personnel check private parts.
BJMP Cebu City Jail Warden Renante Rubio, in a phone call, said that they have greyhound operations every day to confiscate contrabands.
He said that most information the PNP received are from the cellphones they recovered detailing drug transactions.
He said that there are around 100 visitors visiting every day, and measures to prevent sneaking in of contrabands are in place.
“Actually daghang dakop ang pulis agi sa information gikan sa sulod. Ang mga information amo makuha amo i-coordinate sa PNP, specially sa amo makuha sa nga information from cellphones nmadakpan,” Rubio said. (Several police arrests are from information they got from us.)