5,000 assorted and unuseable firearms are destroyed during a ceremonial demilitarization and destruction of confiscated and surrendered weapons in Camp Crame, Quezon City, headed by Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo T. Eleazar on Monday, June 28. The firearms were cut into pieces before being disposed. Niño Jesus Orbeta/Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippine National Police on Monday destroyed some 5,000 firearms, which are beyond repair. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, chief of the PNP, said that some of the unserviceable firearms were recovered from different anticrime operations or turned over while some were firearms issued to police personnel. On Monday’s ceremonial demilitarization of 5,000 short and long firearms in Camp Crame, Eleazar cut in half a rifle using a circular saw. The guns were described to be “beyond economical repair-captured, confiscated, surrendered, deposited, abandoned, forfeited-turned PNP property firearms,” or BER-CCSDAF-TPPF. A PNP memorandum circular allows destruction as the method of disposal of unsaleable PNP property, including firearms, that pose a hazard to the public if not destroyed. In April, the PNP destroyed some 7,000 unserviceable firearms, which were similarly BER-CCSDAF-TPPF.