POLICE FILES

AILING MAN FOUND HANGING DEAD

A MAN suffering from liver illness was found hanging dead in his home in barangay Central Biasong, Talisay City, southern Cebu.

The fatality was identified as Eduardo Briones, 52. The man’s longtime illness may have drove him to commit suicide, said police.

Police said the man used a blouse in hanging himself. The man was found by his daughter suspended from the ceiling past 3 p.m. last Tuesday.

The victim’s daughter, Cornula Briones, told police that her father took a nap in his room after they had lunch.

Cornula said her father later called her and complained that he had difficulty in breathing.

The daughter said she helped her father relieve himself by helping him sit up on the bed.

The daughter said she left the room for a while but was shocked to see her father suspended from the ceiling when she returned later.

Members of the Talisay Rescue Emergency Action Team arrived and rushed the man to the Talisay City District Hospital but he did not make it alive.

SPO4 Daniel Tarucan said there were no signs of foul play in the man’s death./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC

EX-TRAINING CENTER HEAD NABBED

POLICE arrested a former security training center branch manager in an entrapment operation on Monday for allegedly facilitating “non-appearance” on trainings required for security guards.

Police collared Jasum Ebdante Tarrayo, 34, former branch manager of Valiant Security Training Center, the a Manila-based training center, in Sanciangko Street, barangay Sto. Niño, Cebu City.

They set up the operation after receiving complaints from three security guards.

Tarrayo acted as a fixer providing security guard applicants falsified certificates of training that were required for the release of guards’ license, said Supt. Rex Derilo, Firearms Explosives Security Service Agency and Guards Supervisory Section in Central Visayas chief.

Derilo said the applicants would be required to undergo three weeks of training while those renewing their licenses would have to undergo a one week refresher course.

He said the illegal activity would greatly affect the security of the community because the guards would be ill-equipped and unprepared for their required duties.

Currently, only 12 private security training centers are accredited by the Philippine National Police to operate in the region.

Republic Act 5487 or the Private Security Agency Law requires all private detectives, watchmen or security guards, to undergo appropriate training before licenses are issued to any applicant, and during renewal, insuring personnel competence.

“We have agencies that maliciously facilitate nonappearance training where security guards can easily acquire license from Camp Crame without appropriate training,” Derilo said.

Tarrayo refused to comment on the allegations against him.

Police filed on Tuesday an estafa complaint at the City Prosecutor’s Office against Tarrayo./Correspondent Chito O. Aragon