CEBU CITY, Philippines — Policemen in the 11 police stations in Cebu City are implementing strict personal hygiene inside their respective station’s detention cells amid the recent coronavirus
BJMP-7 confirms 1 jail officer infected with COVID-19
Ligan said he gave the order because of the vulnerability of the detainees in congested cells from the COVID-19. In previous reports, in the first week of April before the previous acting CCPO chief, Police Colonel Hector Grijaldo, was relieved from his post.Grijaldo claimed that there were at least 600 detainees in the detention cells of the 11 police stations of Cebu City at that time, who were mostly curfew and enhanced community quarantine violators.
This meant that there were 380 more detainees in these 11 cells or an average of at least 50 persons for a cell that was made to hold only 20 persons.
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