DURING NIGHTTIME
Cops to ensure safety
of call center agents

The police will provide photos and profiles of known hold-up suspects to call centers in the city in an effort to prevent more robberies involving nightshift employees, Senior Supt. Ronilo Quebrar, Bacolod police director, said yesterday.

Quebrar said his office will provide the profiles and pictures so call center agents can identify them and be on the guard against them.

Another preventive measure, Quebrar said, is for agents not to leave their houses or workplaces alone and to leave unneeded valuables at home.

In a recent meeting with call center executives in Bacolod, BCPO officials, SP members Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, Wilson Gamboa Jr. and Al Victor Espino discussed how to prevent thieves from victimizing BPO agents.

Espino said that he will raise this concern with the peace and order council of the city chaired by Mayor Evelio Leonardia, while Gamboa suggested the accreditation or identification of public transportation like jeepneys, tricycles and trisikads used by call center employees on their way to and from work.*PP

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Porter, 2 others
injured in shooting

Three men were injured in shooting incidents in Negros Occidental, Monday.

Jay Cepry Juarez, 23, a stevedore, of Luzuriaga-Lopez Jaena streets, Bacolod, was brought to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, with a gunshot wound on his right thigh, allegedly inflicted by his fellow porter, an alias “Glenn”, near the Libertad Public Market in Bacolod, at about 6 p.m. Monday.

Chief Insp. Ulysses Ortiz, Police Station 6 commander, said that Glenn, a resident of Phase 6, Brgy. Handumanan, Bacolod, apparently harbored personal grudges against Juarez when he shot him with a .38 caliber revolver near a bus terminal at Lopez Jaena Street.

Frustrated homicide charges will be filed against Glenn, Ortiz said.

Teresito Larisama, meanwhile, was also rushed to the CLMMRH when he was shot by a certain “Tiloy” in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, Monday morning.

Also brought to the same hospital was Peejay Quipot with gunshot wounds inflicted by an unidentified person in La Castellan town, also in the province, Monday.*PP

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