Cebu City councilman calls on public to help solve crimes

EBU CITY -Councilor Joel Garganera has urged Cebuanos to help authorities solve crimes amid the alarming peace and order situation in Cebu City.

Garganera, ed by members of Waterfront we cannot fully rely on the who also chairs the Police Police Station after capability of the police. Advisory Council, his relatives informed It needs the cooperation said the community authorities of his whereabouts and trust of the community,” should get involved in in Mandaue City. he said. crime solution by providing Garganera said Familiar Garganera also encouraged police with information was easily identified and the public to on suspected immediately pursued not trust the authorities, who perpetrators. just because of the relatives’ really need the civilians’

The local legislator cooperation but also support to be effective in made the call following because of the information the fight against criminality. the arrest of notorious provided by the suspect’s thief Emelito Familiar Jr., neighbors. the suspect in the killing “The series of killings of 23-year-old student in Cebu is alarming. But Charie Mae Mancia inside we have seen the swift her boarding house solution of a crime because in Barangay Tinago recently. of the public’s involvement. When we talk

Familiar was arrest- about peace and order,

Familiar stabbed Mancia to death after the victim found him inside her room. Investigators said the suspect’s plan was only to steal some valuables from Mancia’s room, but it resulted to murder. The victim, who was a native of Aloguinsan town and a first year Accountancy student at the Asian College of Technology, died of multiple stab wounds in her neck and other parts of the body. (Luel Galarpe)