DAVAO CITY, July 18 (PIA) An official of the Public Safety Command Center revealed a mixed-up in the information on the vehicles carrying the remaining ten alleged members of the kidnap-for-ransom group.
The kidnappers had eluded arrest following the shoot-out that killed three of their alleged companions during a foiled pay-off last Thursday (July 11) in front of a bank at C.M. Recto Street.
Francisco Villaroman, chief of the Public Safety Command Center told reporters that the incident happened so fast that their technicians failed to put a monitor for a closed-circuit television camera set up in the area one hour and thirty minutes before the shooting incident occurred.
Speaking in the I-Speak Forum, he said that prior to the incident, the PSCC was able to set up a CCTV camera almost fronting the crime scene at 11:00 am on that day.
“We were quite unlucky. We could have monitored the movement of people and vehicles in the area prior to the incident,” Villaroman said.
He said the PSCC was also given an inaccurate information by the witness on the vehicles carrying the 10 other perpetrators which could have been monitored by other CCTV cameras installed in other parts of the city.
Villaroman explained that the rest of the alleged abductors got away as authorities did know what to look for given the wrong information.
“There was a misunderstanding from the ground up to the operation center. The witness was also in the state of shock when asked about the description of other vehicles carrying other perpetrators, so the information given initially was inaccurate,” he said.
Villaroman said it was too late already to pursue the accurate information that the perpetrators fled on board Pajero sports-utility-vehicles.
He said the local authorities could have captured the other perpetrators if the witness gave the exact color, model and model of the sports-utility vehicles which tailed them from Manila, Butuan to Davao City.
Villaroman said that currently, they now have the correct information about the perpetrators who are still subject for a massive manhunt.
He also allayed the fears of city residents that the perpetrators might strike in the city.
Villaroman said the kidnap-for-ransom-group operates in Metro Manila and adjoining regions III and IV.
He said the Mitsubishi Montero used by the perpetrators killed in the shootout was bought in Baliuag, Bulacan and owned by someone from Angono, Rizal.
“It means that the perpetrators were operating in Metro Manila and Central Luzon and not from Davao City,” Villaroman said, though he disclosed that one of those killed in the shootout hailed from South Cotabato.
He assured that the perpetrators are being hunted down by the intelligence community nationwide. (PIA XI-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines)
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