LEGAZPI CITY, Nov 22 – The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Bicol team are now in Tacloban City Jail to help restore security and order after reports of prisoners on the loose due to typhoon Yolanda.
The seventeen-man team headed by BJMP Bicol director J/S Supt Pio Capistrano has been in Tacloban City since November 11, three days after the typhoon.
BJMP 5 together with teams from other regions is still looking for 103 inmates at large going down from 117 as of Tuesday this week.
There were 676 inmates before the typhoon and 559 after it hit Tacloban.
The prisoners had been freed from their flooded cells to seek higher ground but instead others smashed the main door and escaped.
Capistrano said BJMP 5 Team was also among the first responders to the devastation brought by the super typhoon witnessing not only the scattered debris, ruined structures and properties and bodies of dead people but also the survivors walking stunned and in disbelief of what happened.
Moreover, Capistrani added these did not hamper them from completing their mission of restoring order at Tacloban City Jail and other jails affected by the typhoon.
BJMP personnel in Tacloban were also among the victims left homeless and with missing members of their familes. (MAL/SAA/PIA5-Albay/BJMP5)
The seventeen-man team headed by BJMP Bicol director J/S Supt Pio Capistrano has been in Tacloban City since November 11, three days after the typhoon.
BJMP 5 together with teams from other regions is still looking for 103 inmates at large going down from 117 as of Tuesday this week.
There were 676 inmates before the typhoon and 559 after it hit Tacloban.
The prisoners had been freed from their flooded cells to seek higher ground but instead others smashed the main door and escaped.
Capistrano said BJMP 5 Team was also among the first responders to the devastation brought by the super typhoon witnessing not only the scattered debris, ruined structures and properties and bodies of dead people but also the survivors walking stunned and in disbelief of what happened.
Moreover, Capistrani added these did not hamper them from completing their mission of restoring order at Tacloban City Jail and other jails affected by the typhoon.
BJMP personnel in Tacloban were also among the victims left homeless and with missing members of their familes. (MAL/SAA/PIA5-Albay/BJMP5)
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