THE Philippine National Police (PNP) ensured that the documents, including pieces of evidence necessary for the cases under the investigation of the Caloocan City police, remain intact despite the fire that gutted its police station office on November 14.
Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM) director Augusto Marquez Jr. said upon checking that they found out that the Caloocan City Police Station was able to upload case folders under their responsibility in the PNP’s Case information Data-based Management System (CIDMS).
The CIDMS is a unified case management system that serves as back-up of investigation documents to prevent its damage either through human or natural means just like what happened around 4:30 a.m. on November 14, where the Caloocan City Police Station was hit by fire in which its entire ground floor where the homicide division office, which houses the case folders, was burned.
“With the advent of the CIDMS, which is one of the six e-programs developed by the DIDM and ITMS (Information Technology Management Service), the problem of the Caloocan City Police Station as to the destroyed record files ios no longer a major concern and the loss of record files of investigated cases is now a thing in the past,” Marquez said.
“Once the case folder was uploaded into the CIDMS, it is retrievable from the internet through an activated user account,” he added.
Marquez said around 121,724 case folders, including the 545 from the Caloocan City police station, were uploaded in the CIDMS.
The burning of the police station raised concerns from the public particularly in the investigation of the controversial cases under the jurisdiction of the Caloocan City police including the killing of 17-year-old Kian Delos Santos and 19-year-old Karl Angelo Arnaiz on August 16 and 18, respectively.
The killing of the teenagers has resulted for the Senate to re-open their investigation on the alleged extra-judicial killings in line with the government’s war on drugs.
Delos Santos was killed after he allegedly engaged in a firefight the police officers who were then conducting Oplan Galugad in their area in Baranggay 160, Caloocan City.
Witnesses claimed the teenager was intentionally killed as there was no shootout during the said operations, but police said they killed Arnaiz after he allegedly tried to fire shots at them during their attempt to arrest him after receiving report that he tried to rob a taxi driver.
Witnesses said Arnaiz was ordered to alight a police mobile where he kneeled and pleaded for his life but was shot dead by the police along C3 road in Caloocan City.
“In spite the unfortunate fate suffered by the Caloocan City Police Station, justice will be served upon them while for the suspects involved in the crimes, there is no happy days for you,” Marquez said. (VoxPop Philippines)
