Tag: Mandatory Examination of Firearms Seized/Confiscated during Police Operations

Gunban guns tested for possible involvement in crime

QUEZON CITY, May 18 –  The PNP Crime Laboratory is conducting ballistics examination on some 3,500 guns that were confiscated in the gunban in connection with the May 9, 2016 national and local elections. The policy of mandatory ballistics examination on confiscated firearms is contained in the 2013 Revised Police Operational Procedures. Rule 15.3 of the 2013 Revised Police Operational Procedures provides for the Mandatory Examination of Firearms Seized/Confiscated during Police Operations, according to PNP […]