BJMPRO-XI HISTORY

In the advent of integration, the custody and safekeeping of inmates in this region was transferred to the control of the Integrated National Police, through the Office of Jail Management and Penology (OJMP) by virtue of PD 765 in the year 1976. With the late retired SSUPT DIOSDADO M PAÑARES as the first Assistant Regional Director. The Regional office was then located at Camp Catitipan, Davao City.

On May 10, 1992, the regional office of Jail Management and Penology was formally turned over to the administrative operational control of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology by virtue of RA 6975, as a line bureau under the Department of the Interior and Local Government. The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) also known as the Jail Bureau, exercises supervision and control over all district, city and municipal jails nationwide. JSUPT JOSE DEL B MONTE assumed office as Assistant Regional Director for the period from June 11, 1992 to March 08, 1993. The Regional Office was located then at the Apartelle de Davao, Juna Subdivision, Matina, Davao City.

At present, the Regional Office is located inside Davao City Jail compound, a one (1) hectare jail facility at the Telecom Reservation Area, Purok 25, Barangay Ma-a, along the Southern part of Davao City. It has an approximate distance of six (6) kilometers away from the city proper and just 20 minutes ride from Davao City International Airport. The regional office is a two-storey building housing the Regional Director’s Office and the offices of the different division’s of BJMPRO-XI.

BJMPRO-XI directs, supervises and controls the administration of Twelve (12) jails located in the four provinces of this region, Davao del Sur, Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley Province. Six (6) of which are District Jails, five (5) City Jails, one (1) female Jail.



DAVAO DEL SUR

DAVAO CITY JAIL
DAVAO CITY FEMALE JAIL
DIGOS CITY DIST JAIL
MAGSAYSAY DIST JAIL (Transferred to Digos City District Jail)
MALITA DIST JAIL

DAVAO NORTE

TAGUM CITY JAIL
SAMAL CITY JAIL
PANABO CITY DIST JAIL
KAPALONG DIST JAIL

DAVAO ORIENTAL

LUPON DIST JAIL
MATI CITY JAIL
MANAY DIST JAIL (Transferred to Mati City Jail)

COMVAL
MONTEVISTA DIST JAIL