Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject: Metro killings increase by 42%
ALTHOUGH the number of crimes in general has dropped during the first three months of 2005, more killings were reported in Metro Manila than the figures from the same period last year, police said Wednesday.
Data from the National Capital Regional Police Office (NCRPO) showed that 248 cases of murder and homicide were reported from January 1 up to the end of March.
The figure is 48 more than the cases January to March last year, an increase of 19.35 percent. The number of murders has dramatically risen, from 114 last year to 162 this year, representing a 42 increase for the periods compared.
Homicides rose slightly, from 84 incidents during the first quarter of last year to 86 this year.
An NCRPO official who declined to be identified said most of the murders reported were crimes of passion where the suspects were hired killers.
The report also showed that there were more shooting incidents from January up to April of this year than in the same period last year.
This year there were about 22 shootings in Metro Manila, resulting in the death of 9 persons, including former Rep. Henry Lanot of Pasig City, and injuries to 16 others.
In the first quarter of last year there were about 15 shootings, resulting in the death of 6 persons and injury to 12 others.
The report said the murders and homicides, especially the killing of Lanot and Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Alicia Ramos, were isolated cases of premeditated acts of violence.
The NCRPO chief, Deputy Director General Avelino Razon Jr., in an interview over radio station DzMM, acknowledged the increase in the number of killings.
Razon said the NCRPO is doing all it can to prevent crimes against persons, and that the police have stepped up their campaign against loose firearms.
During the past three weeks, three high-profile murders took place in Metro Manila in which the victims came from affluent families.
Last Monday Dr. Nicolo Echiverri, a relative of Mayor Enrico Echiverri of Caloocan City and Commission on Elections Chair Benjamin Abalos, was shot dead by four men as he was driving his car in Mandaluyong City.
The day before, Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Alicia Ramos was killed by robbers who broke into her house in Palanan, Makati City.
Lanot, who ran for mayor in Pasig last year, was shot and killed by a gunman as he was having lunch with a friend at the Jade Palace Restaurant on Shaw Boulevard, Pasig, on April 13.
On Tuesday night Leticia Ramos-de la Cruz, sister of Alicia, said in her statement to the police that there were five, not three, robbers who broke into Alicia’s home. Four of them entered the house while the fifth stayed outside as a lookout.
The Southern Police chief, Willy Garcia, refused to distribute copies of Leticia Ramos’s statement to reporters, saying investigators were still analyzing it.
The Metro Manila Police chief, Avelino Razon, had said three men were involved in the robbery.
Leticia said the robbers knocked on the gate and when she opened the front door of the house, the men burst in. They hogtied and blindfolded her before locking her up in a room on the ground floor.
Leticia said she heard a commotion on the second floor where her sister’s room was.
She said she managed to free herself after more than an hour, but the robbers were gone by then.
Leticia went upstairs and saw her sister slumped on her bed. She ran outside to get help.
Two women took her to the Saint Claire Hospital, where she called the police.
Leticia’s statement bolsters the police’s initial theory that robbery was the motive, but Garcia withheld comment, saying he would rather wait for the PNP-Crime Laboratory’s report on its analysis of the evidence recovered inside the house, including fingerprints and nail shavings, clothes and a packaging tape. With Jefferson Antiporda
Alicia Ramos’s body lies at the Loyola Memorial Chapel in Guadalupe, Makati. She is scheduled to be buried Thursday in Rosario, Cavite, after an 8 a.m. Mass. _________________ Asia Expats Forum Expat Friends Dating
I don't think they were refering to subway crimes.
Crime here is not reported much particularly in the foreign papers (which are not written by foreigners anyway). It exists though well enough. There was some stat someone on another board found indicating that Seoul had the second highest violent crime rate after Tokyo of 8 NE Asian cities. It seems pretty safe to me though. Then again I don't walk around in public hand-in-hand with Korean women which might prompt some reprisals especially when alcohol is involved.
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
Album
FAQ
Quizzes
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
