I didn't know until now that our ships have sea marshals onboard...

The Freeman

Sea marshal shooting victim still in hospital
July 12, 2004

THE 23-year-old man who was shot and wounded by a sea marshal is still confined in the hospital for punctured lungs. The sea marshal, S/Sgt. Ricardo Refugio, has reportedly been released from custody.

Jorey Etac, a seafarer and a son of a Surigao policeman, was on his way to Manila onboard the MV Filipina Princess to process shipboard documents. Operated by Sulpicio Lines Inc., the MV Filipina Princess departed from Surigao on its way to Manila via Cebu.

As the vessel was approaching Pier 5 in the Port of Cebu, shooting occurred involving sea marshal Refugio and Etac.

The sea marshal had responded to an alarm when a woman passenger approached him for a stolen wallet. Charmaine Dalugdog pointed at Etac to have stolen the wallet containing P1,000 in cash. In her affidavit, Dalugdog said that Refugio accosted Etac but that Etac allegedly attacked the sea marshal and even pulled out a fan knife while trying to grab Refugio’s service pistol. Etac and Refugio grappled with the gun but that it blew off hitting Etac on the lower ribs.

Passengers reportedly scurried in different directions as the shot rang out.

Danrevel, brother of Jorey said they have seriously considered filing charges against Refugio.

Danrevel said his brother was tipsy when Dalugdog started telling passengers that she lost her wallet. He said it is uncertain if Dalugdog had actually pointed at Jorey as the thief based on earlier accounts. But fellow passengers told the Etacs that the wallet was found under a table.

Fellow passengers also said that crewmembers stood around Jorey that it was difficult to ascertain if Jorey grappled with Refugio’s firearm.

Upon arriving port, Refugio immediately filed a complaint against Jorey where passenger Charmaine Dalugdog and another female passenger issued affidavits. But the fiscal dismissed the case because it was impossible for the Jorey to be grappling with a gun when he was outnumbered by crewmembers standing around him.

SPO4 Dan Etac, Jorey’s father, said they might also file charges against Sulpicio Lines. — Liv G. Campo

:o naku at hindi naman kawatan ang nabaril..
ano ba mga sea marshals san galing sa army po?

Probably Marines because the ships are more familiar territory to them than Army. But I could be wrong.

I found the answer to your question isnayper --

The Freeman

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Sea marshals - cool - just like Israeli air marshals aboard El Al airliners. ;)

This program was implemented to help prevent another Superferry-like bombing incident.

With what happened in that Basilan port, i beleive the PCG should start hiring more SEA MARSHALLS.

Their responsibilties?

1) Security protection.

Two or 3 guys should be provided per every ship as big as the Super ferry. For smaller ships, 1 or two maybe enough.

They should be trained on explosives as well. A bomb expet onboard will definitely present a sense of security for the passengers and crews.

Weapons? Probably radios, NVGs for checking hostile boats trying to hijack or attack the ships at night, assault rifles, pistols, first aid kit.

2) First aid

These PCG men should be trained for first aid to assist crews or passengers in times of emergencies such as this.

3) As intel men covering law-enforcement concerns.

They cant enforce the law that effectively since they are outnumbered and the ship crew or owners can do something to influence them. It is best that they act as intel guys for the PCG for the meantime.

It is best that there is a regular rotation of Sea Marshalls to prevent collusion with the crews engaged in illegal activities.

4) Assist the ship crew during emergencies like fire or accidents involding another ship.

They should be equipped with satellite phones. Smart Communications offers it. With that they can easily notify the PCG rescue teams during emergencies and send vital intel data to the HQ.

Vital intel data can also be given to them when HQ picks up info from other sources such as the AFP or NICA. With that the guys onboard can react on time before the attack is consumated.

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BTW, this may present an added expense for the PCG. So, the shipowners must help the PCG maintain these Sea Marshalls. It's for the ship's security anyway.

I think the sea marshall program of the PCG was only focused on the big shipping companies in the country. in response to basilan ferry bombing the sea marshall was excluded their because they are under the navy controlled area.

With what happened in Basilan the PCG should now assign Sea Marshalls to every passenger ship, big or small.

The Marines arent trained for law-enforcement related to what the PCG does.

The PCG must make sure that the Sea Marshalls are equipped and trained properly though as what i suggested in my earlier post. Else, they will not be that effective. They will only be as good as the private security guards rented by the shipowners onboard their ships.

This Sea Marshalls must be trained in CQB also.

It's the safety of the passengers that we are talking of here.

The PCG must ensure that its Sea Marshalls will be ABLE TO FULFILL their roles EFFECTIVELY.

Added expense?

The PCG may negotiate with the shipowners on how they can help them maintain these Sea Marshalls.

The effect of the Superferry or Basilan incident is so great that it affects our image in the eyes of the world community, especially the foreign investors and tourists.

The concern on cost is overwhelmed by that concern.

I suggest that Marines should be fielded in ships and ports that are as vulnerable as what was implicated in the Basilan incident, ... to act as back-up or to augment the PCG Sea Marshalls.

It is not only the PCG who has the role to prevent it and provide security as well.

I stated before that IMO (International Maritime Organization) implemented and enforced worldwide last July 2004 the ISPS (The International Ships and Port Facilities Security) Code of which our country is a signatory.

Implementation involves the following:

1) Company
a. Company Security Officer
1. Ship Security Assessment
2. Ship Security Plan
b. Management - provides equipments needed

2) Ship
a. Ship's Master - overriding authority
b. Ship Security Officer - sees to it that the Ship Security Plan is implemented
c. Ship's crew - undergone Security Awareness training

3) Port Facilities
a. port facility security plans
b· port facility security officers
c· certain security equipment

4) Contracting Government

have various responsibilities, including setting the applicable security level, approving the Ship Security Plan and relevant amendments to a previously approved plan, verifying the compliance of ships with the provisions of SOLAS chapter XI-2 and part A of the ISPS Code and issuing the International Ship Security Certificate, determining which port facilities located within their territory are required to designate a Port Facility Security Officer, ensuring completion and approval of the Port Facility Security Assessment and the Port Facility Security Plan and any subsequent amendments of which in our case alls on the MARINA

http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?...583&doc_id=2689
http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=897

So the Company on it's own should have done their assignment. Are their crew trained properly in the following:

- monitoring and controlling access
· monitoring the activities of people and cargo
· ensuring security communications are readily available

Are the Sea Marshalls still around? I regularly travel by ship from Cebu to Manila and all I see are the ship security guards roving around.

As I understand, sea (and air) marshalls pretend they are just ordinary passengers

802 rescued from Superferry
Board of Marine Inquiry starts probe on fire

By YUL MALICSE

Ship in Cebu when fire hits top deck

A special Board of Marine Inquiry (BMI) yesterday started its investigation on the fire that hit Superferry 12 of WG & A Shipping Corp. the other day where a total of 664 passengers — including 638 adults, 23 children, and three infants — and 138 officers and crew were rescued off Bantayan Island in Cebu.

Commodore Ramon Liwag, Task Force Sea Marshal commander and chief of the Philippine Coast Guard-National Capital Regional District (PCG-NCRD), said in his report to PCG Commandant Vice Admiral Arthur Gosingan that the cause of the fire was yet unknown.

Initial reports, however, said the fire originated from Cabins 205 and 206 in the ship’s top deck at around 11:50 a.m.

When alarmed, the sea marshals, composed of members of the PCG, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and the Philippine National Police Maritime Group (PNP-MG),immediately evacuated the passengers, who had started to panic. The sea marshals then put out the fire.

At about 1:15 p.m. the same day, the fire was placed under control, and by 4:47 p.m. a "fire out" status was declared.

The ferry left Manila at about 6 p.m. Wednesday for the cities of Cebu and Cagayan de Oro.

Liwag said the ferry functioned normally, proceeded and reached the Cebu port, prior to the fire.

http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN2006031158346.html

yup took a ride bound for cebu 2 weeks ago aboard superferry.they still have sea marshals.you won't fail to notice them because they are in BDU's.

http://www.mb.com.ph/PROV2006112180265.html

Good thing these marshals have shark senses :thumb:

We didnt realize how helpful these guys are until this incident.

This development has strengthened the need to field more secret marshals in all ships not just to thwart terror attacks but to stop all other crimes.

GOOD JOB, MARSHALS! :salute:

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

When I was in Tokyo, Japan last month, I came to know Filipina entertainers looking as young as 15 years old in strip clubs with a dual calling as prostitutes.

I'm just not sure if they were telling the truth that according to two girls whom I got a chance to chat in my hotel, their job in the recruitment and contract back home they signed thru an agency is different from what they were doing in Japan. And because they were already there, they have no choice except to stay on to avoid paying back huge sum of money to the placement agency.

We have an embassy in Tokyo and consular offices in major cities in Japan and why can't they stop this trafficking of young girls that landed in prostitution dens in Japan?

Nightspots in Japan are mostly protected and owned by Japanese Mafia, (the Yakuza).

Ive just sent an email to the NBI to help these people and stop this crime.


http://www.nbi.doj.gov.ph

MAIN OFFICE ADDRESS:

NBI Building, Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines


TELEPHONE NUMBERS:

523-82-31 to 38


EMAIL ADDRESS:


nbiwebmaster@nbi.doj.gov.ph

rgwycoco@nbi.doj.gov.ph as in Dir. Wycoco's :armyeek:

oo nga. sori. baka biglang magmulto yun.

loko yung NBI site eh. Irresponsible yung nagmamanage nun. tsk tsk tsk

eh kung ibangtao pa or foreigner nakabasa nun?

Akala ko nga na re-incarnated si companero.

May he rest in peace.