Businessman in Bacolod, including incoming investors intending to trade the city, are assured of their safety, Councilor El Cid Familiaran, chairman, committee on police security and jail management of the Sangguniang Panlungsod, yesterday said. This came in the heels of alarm sounded off by the business groups following the recent killings that took place in Bacolod, including the lawyer businessman Johnny Chua, owner of East View Hotel, and the murder of Raymond "Small Boy" Longno who had been tagged as hired gun. "Bacolod City is generally peaceful," Familiaran assured, adding that his committee is working with attached government agencies to ensure peace and order in the city. He said what whether or not statistics on crime against person or property decline, these things still matter, most especially when cases are unsolved. "I urged the concerned agencies to resolve these pending cases because this is the only way you can regain the trust confidence, not only of the business sector, but most especiall of your constituents," the legislator explained. Police reports had indicated that Chua's assassination was well-planned, and the murder of Longno, alleged killer, led to their declaration that the murder is a "closed case,"
MISSING LINKS Familiaran, however, stressed that Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, director of the Bacolod City Police Office, should resolve the missing links in the case puzzle. "These missing peices in the puzzle are the pending questions of who hired Raymond "Small Boy" Longno to assassinate Atty. Chua, and later ordered the killer's termination ,"he theorized. REQUIRING CCTVs IN BUSINESSES Although inclined with the proposal of the police in requiring business establishments to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, Familiaran said their establishments," Familiaran said. He added that there must be a law or a guidelin, such as a business should have the capital coveage of at least P3-5 million, because owners of small scale business like sari-sari stores can't afford to install security cameras. In the PNP proposal, all business establishments nationwide should install CCTV security systems. LOCAL ORDINANCE Familiaran said an ordinance authored by Councilor Archie Baribar, which is similar to PNP's proposal, has long been passed in the Sangguniang Panlungsod. The ordinance requires all banks and other financial institutions, as well a certain business establishments within Bacolod City, to install CCTVs within their premises. The installation of the CCTV device will required Business Permits for new businesses. WATCHMEN DAILY JOURNAL
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