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Monday, January 2, 2017
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CEBU City – An official of the Philippine Association of Detective and Protective Agency Operators (Padpao) Region 7 welcomed the investigation into private security agencies aimed at getting rid of rogue security guards.
Padpao denounced the killing of the father-and-son lawyers Goering Paderanga and Gerik by a security guard on Dec. 22, 2016.
It condemned “in strongest terms the senseless killing” perpetrated by Jonathan Sanchez, Padpao regional vice president Edgar Gica said in a statement.
Sanchez admitted to shooting the Paderanga father and son. His wife, Charito, on the other hand, claimed the security guard was treated twice for mental illness in a public hospital here.
“With such admission and given the fact that the killer was on duty when he committed such dastardly act of ‘murdering’ the two Cebuano lawyers, Padpao-7 welcomes any form of investigation by proper government authorities on private security agencies so as to sanitize the private security operations, at least in Region 7, and rid it of scalawags and security guards who fail to muster the Code of Conduct, Code of Ethics and General Orders imposed by the Private Security Agency Law (RA 5487) and its implementing rules and regulations,” Gica said.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) issues licenses to private security agencies, he said.
It also issues security guards a License to Engage in the Profession of a Security Guard and accredits private security agency training schools, or academies.
“It is therefore in that sense that Padpao-7 welcomes the move by the PNP and the city government of Cebu to meet with the private security agency operators so that ways and means can be found and undertaken to completely prevent the occurrence of similar criminal incidents involving private security guards,” Gica said.
Sanchez shot the Paderangas past 8 p.m. near their law office on F. Ramos Street, Barangay Santa Cruz.
The 62-year-old Paderanga, husband of Regional Trial Court Judge Sylva Paderanga, had several gunshot wounds on the body. He expired at the nearby Velez Hospital around two hours later, past 10 p.m.
Gerik, on the other hand, died three days after he was shot in the nape. He was the eldest of three children. (PNA)
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