BJMP orders relief of all Dagupan personnel
Not one of the officials and staff at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Dagupan was spared from a total revamp following an escape and a riot among inmates.
All the 19 personnel of the city’s jail have been sent for retraining at the BJMP headquarters in Manila and Jail Supt. Edgar Bolcio, concurrently the assistant regional director of BJMP Region 1, has been assigned to head the Dagupan jail.
In a meeting with local newsmen, Bolcio said he has been given full authority to select and appoint his own men to take charge of the BJMP unit in Dagupan.
Bolcio said he has already recruited 22 jail officers from different areas in the country.
At the height of Typhoon Cosme in the early evening of May 17, inmates staged their break inside the jail facility by destroying cells, assaulting their guards and attempted to break the wall leading to the jail warden’s office and burning documents and parts of the facilities.
During the riot, the inmates were shouting invectives at the then jail warden, Chief Inspector Joseph Tacdoy. Tacdoy was a recent replacement of multi-awarded Jail Warden Roque Constantino Sison who was recalled to the regional headquarters pending an investigation of a reported anomaly involving him inside the jail.
Tacdoy was later replaced by Jail Chief Inspector Florante Nisperos on May 18.
Two inmates managed to escape but were soon recaptured.
Earlier, an inmate had escaped from the custody of a certain JO3 Dulay while on their way back to the jail after attending a court hearing in Sta. Barbara town.
Upon assumption of his post, Bolcio said he had a talk with the 321 inmates, including 35 females, and stressed that dialogue should always be sought in resolving complaints.
Apart from the revamp, 15 inmates, two of them female, suspected to have instigated the riot have been transferred to the BJMP in San Carlos City
Bolcio also appealed for help from Good Samaritans for the rehabilitation of the jail facilities that were damaged both by Typhoon Cosme and the riot.#
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