Section 42Sec./Art. 42

The City Jail Service.- (a) There shall be established and maintained in the City a secured, clean, adequately equipped and sanitary jail for the custody and safekeeping of prisoners, any fugitive from justice, or person detained, awaiting investigation or trial and/or transfer to the National Penitentiary, and/or violent mentally-ill person who endangers himself or the safety of others, duly certified as such by the proper medical health officer, pending the transfer to a mental institution.

(b) The city jail service shall be headed by a city jail warden who must be a graduate of a four (4) year course in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, social work or criminology from a recognized college or university, and who shall assist in the immediate rehabilitation of individuals or detention of prisoners. Great care must be exercised so that the human rights of these prisoners are respected and protected, and their spiritual and physical well-being is properly and promptly attended to.

(c) The city jail warden shall receive such compensation, emoluments and allowances as may be determined by law.

(d) The city jail warden shall be under the direct supervision of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, shall take charge of the city jail, and shall:

(1) Develop plans and strategies and, upon approval thereof by the city mayor, implement the same particularly those which have to do with the custody and safekeeping of inmates, jail administration and management, and other programs that are helpful in the reformation of inmates, and projects which the city mayor is empowered to implement and which the sangguniang panlungsod is empowered to provide;

(2) Recommend to the sangguniang panlungsod and advise the city mayor on all matters related to jail services in the City;

(3) Be in the frontline in the development of measures for a more efficient and effective city jail system; and

(4) Perform such other duties and functions and exercise such other powers as provided for under Republic Act No. 6975, otherwise known as the PNP Law; Republic Act No. 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991, and those that are prescribed by law, ordinance or relevant Department of the Interior and Local Government's rules and regulations.

ARTICLE IX. TRANSITORY AND FINAL PROVISIONS