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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Board of inquiry probes death of police trainee
By Bong Garcia
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Police in the Zamboanga Peninsula created a six-member board of inquiry to investigate the death of a 27-year-old police trainee in Camp Colonel Romeo Abendan, which houses the regional police headquarters in Zamboanga City.
Marisa Bello, a policewoman trainee, was declared dead on arrival Friday night by the attending physician at the Mindanao Central Sanitarium where she was rushed for treatment after collapsing during an evening formation for headcount.
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Regional Special Training Unit Director Jose Bayani Gucela said the board of inquiry is headed by Deputy Regional Director for Operations (DRCO) Edwin Soledad.
The vice chairman is Chief Inspector Nickson Muksan, regional investigation chief, and the members are the chiefs of the human resource and doctrine development, legal service, health service, and Gucela as the secretariat.
Gucela said they have started the investigation and will submit the final findings to Zamboanga Peninsula Police Director Jaime Caringal within the week.
Initial findings, however, showed that Bello succumbed to cardio respiratory arrest secondary to myocardial infarction, according to Gucela.
He said that prior to the incident, Bello's companions noted that she was weak when they came from a mass in a chapel inside Camp Abendan.
Bello is one of the 30 policewoman trainees among the 200 recruits undergoing police orientation course for internal security operations training in Camp Abendan.
Gucela said the two-month internal security training, which will end in January, is a requirement before trainees could be sent to the Philippine Public Safety College in Camp Captain Felicisimo Marcos in Barangay Pasonanca for the four months academic course.
Caringal has ordered the chief of the health service to examine the remaining 199 police trainees to ensure they are all in good physical condition.
Four other police trainees have been reported to be frequent visitors of the police regional health service clinic in Camp Abendan due to fever. (Sunnex)
For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star Pangasinan. (December 20, 2006 issue)
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