Conditions on Visitation of Detainees
1. The Chief, Detention/Custodial Center or his duly, authorized representative is
authorized to apportion the number of visitor’s area may allow.
2. With respect to detainee’s family members, public and or pertinent document
must be presented to prove their relationship with the detainee.
3. Visitors wearing the color of the detainee’s uniform shall be advised to wear
other colors.
4. The Custodial Center, an informal and temporary penal facility for arrested
suspects, shall not allow conjugal visits for detention prisoners.
5. The counsel of the accused has the right to visit the latter subject to the
existing security rules and regulation of the Center.
6. No camera, video equipment, cellular phone, and similar devices are allowed
inside the visiting area.
7. All visitors shall be frisked for deadly weapons, firearms and other prohibited
items. (Sec.2c)
Duty of the Jail Guards
1. The jail guards must maintain good grooming, respectable personality and
community relations, and shall wear their prescribed uniformed from Mondays
to Fridays. They may wear casual attire during weekends and holidays.
Wearing of slippers, short pants, and shirts without sleeve during hours is not
permitted.
2. They must keep high level of alertness and vigilance in performing their duties
and responsibilities.
3. There shall be at least two jail guards on a 24-hour duty to ensure the security
of jail facility, the safety of detainees, and the cleanliness of surroundings.
4. The jail guards shall have a tour of duty from 9:00 AM to 9:00 AM the
following day. The most senior of the shift shall be the shift supervisor.
5. After their tour of duties, duty jail guards shall prepare a list of detainees
indicating their status to be noted by the Chief, PDEA Jail Facility and in turn,
submit to the Regional Director for his or her information.
6. In all cases, they shall have a proper turnover and a counting of detainees
which will be reflected in the log book by the outgoing and incoming duty
personnel.
7. Duty jail guards must visually check the condition of the detainees and report
any sign of health and physical deterioration to the Chief, jail Facility.
Likewise, they must inspect the Jail Facility cell from time to time to check its
serviceability and safety and to report immediately any defect noted. They
must always consider all areas as “escape prone.”
8. They must conduct greyhound operation and keep abreast with or anticipate
schemes or modus operandi in bringing inside the detention facility prohibited
drugs items.
9. No cruel, inhuman, degrading, or physical punishment shall be imposed upon
any detainee for violation of rules and regulations.
10. The jail guards shall not use unnecessary force on detainees, except for
legitimate self-defense or in case of attempted active and/or physical
resistance by them to a lawful order.
Jail Visit
1. No visitors shall be allowed except from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM to
4:00 PM from Monday to Fridays, and 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
during weekends and holidays.
2. Visitors, including any members of the detainee’s family or any medical doctor
or priest or religious minister chosen by him, or lawyers shall be allowed
entrance, provided that prior coordination shall be made from the jail guards.
3. Visitors must be frisked and searched throughout of their belongings to
preempt entry of contrabands or any material inside the detention cell that
may be used for illegal purposes.
4. No conjugal visit shall be allowed.
