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QC jail to rise in Payatas

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THE Quezon City government has acquired a  3.4-hectare private land  in Payatas on which it will build a new jail and be able to decongest the 50-year-old detention facility  situated on Kamuning St. and EDSA.

In a press statement, Mayor Herbert Bautista said he and the registered lot owner – M.S. Florendo & Sons Inc. represented by lawyers Arturo Selim and Mary Joyce Selim—have executed a deed of absolute sale on the property.

Bautista said the deed of sale was signed by the parties on April 22, 2015 during the city’s management council meeting.

City administrator Aldrin Cuña said the private lot was worth P130 million.     “Yes, the lot is worth about P130 million and it will be used for the construction of the male and female detention facilities, and the administrative offices,” he told The Standard.

The mayor said he requested Supt. Diony Mamaril, officer-in-charge of BJMP—if he could consider the transfer of the city’s dormitory for female inmates   which is  within the QC  Police District headquarters at Camp Karingal to the new site.

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National Capital Region director Emmanuel Sicio of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology has been tasked by  Mamaril to   monitor and oversee the construction of the jail facility, Bautista said.

The search for new jail site was approved by the city council in 2014  based on an ordinance authored by  Councilor Alexis Herrera.  

According to Bautista, only 2.4 hectares of the acquired property will  be used to build the new Quezon City Jail facility in Barangay Payatas.

He said he plans to build a barangay community center in the remaining one-hectare lot in 2016.

“It is best if there is also a facility which the host community can use,”   he said.

“One hectare of the acquired property shall be set aside for the construction of the center,” secretary to the Office of the Mayor Tadeo Palma said.

While the BJMP’s Quezon City Jail under Supt. Randel Latoza is home to 2,993 male detainees, the QCPD’s female dormitory has 595 female detainees.

The new jail could cost P200 million that has already been incorporated in the BJMP’s 2012 budget and reverted to fund the construction, said Sr. Insp. Alberto Mariano  of the Real Property Division Directorate.

The QC jail was built in the 1950s to house only 236 inmates. The new facility will  have two five-storey buildings that could accommodate 6,600 inmates.  

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