Ballesteros, an employee of Global Security Agency, was on night duty at MHS when he was killed by teenagers who broke into the school last week.
Irene N. Tantiado, United Workers Movement, NMI president, said they were told that the agency failed to regularly monitor its personnel.
Security guards deployed to their respective assignment are supposed to be checked by their agencies every half an hour.
“The guards have cell phones and radios,” she said.
Tantiado said “there was a wide gap” between 9 p.m., when Ballesteros received the last call from his agency, and the morning hours before the security guard was killed.
“Security guards are very vulnerable,” Tantiado said, as she appealed to all security agencies to provide more protection to their employees who perform high risk jobs.
She said security guards should also be provided basic self-defense training.
Tantiado said the United Workers Movement, NMI is raising funds for Ballesteros, who had five children, two of whom reside on Saipan.
For more information, call 285-7717.
“Our group condemns the killing of our fellow worker and the manner he was killed. The worker community of CNMI mourns his untimely passing,” Tantiado said.
