Netbooks carted away SSS branch in Mandaue robbed

CEBU, Philippines - The office of the Social Security System along A.del Rosario Street in Barangay Guizo, Mandaue City lost four of its laptops after it was burglarized yesterday dawn.

The loss was only discovered when the security guard of the said office reported for work at around 6 a.m. yesterday morning and found that the lock of the front glass door was destroyed.

Police Officer 2 Eleazer Ramil, an investigator of the Investigation Detection and Management Bureau at the Mandaue City Police Office, said it was found out during inventory that the office lost one Lenovo netbook worth P25,000 and three Asus netbooks worth P23,000 each.

Ramil said that it is easy for the said office to be burglarized because its facade does not have any roll-up door and the office does not also have a closed-circuit television camera.

Merlinda Duazo, one of the officers at the SSS Mandaue Branch, said no cash was taken by the suspects because the members were instructed to pay their monthly dues through a bank and they only received the receipts.

She added that their cabinets also only contained documents submitted by their members for processing.

Emilyn Perez, the building guard, said around 1 a.m. yesterday, while conducting a roving in the whole building, she noticed three teenagers playing outside the office but she failed to notice that the front door was already burglarized.

It was Ramil Sarsaba, the security guard detailed at the SSS, who noticed that the office was already burglarized.

Police are now conducting a follow-up for the possible identification and arrest of the suspects. — Flor Z. Perolina (FREEMAN)