Security cameras help suspect elude cops’ net

Another drug suspect escaped a drug raid last Friday with the help of security cameras installed in front of the suspect’s house in barangay Duljo-Fatima, Cebu City.

Romulo Rosales Jr. slipped out the back of the house after he saw in the security cameras the members of the Regional Special Operations Group (RSOG) move in at past 11 p.m. last Friday.

Rosales had five security cameras installed at the front of his house. He also had a peephole in the front door, which was made of steel.

According to Senior Insp. Ruel Burlat, RSOG team leader, a police decoy was able to buy two packs of suspected shabu from the suspect for P500 while members of the raiding team were positioned a few meters away from the house.

When the signal was given to move in, they found the house already empty.

Police, however, recovered at least 27 packs believed to contain shabu.

This is the second time in that day that a suspected drug pusher escaped because of the security cameras installed in front of their houses.

Last Friday morning, another suspect, Paul Enolba, escaped a team of policemen from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, who raided his house also in barangay Duljo-Fatima.

Enolba had seven closed circuit television cameras outside his house.

Police however arrested three men who were caught using shabu inside Enolba’s house.

Supt. Romeo Santander, chief of the Cebu City Intelligence Branch (CIB), said security cameras installed in houses of suspected drug pushers have helped the suspects escape from police raiding teams.

Santander said they are thinking of ways to address this new challenge of policemen.