Five personnel of the Philippine National Police-Health Service (PNP-HS) are facing administrative and criminal cases for alleged irregularities in giving clearances to applicants for firearms licenses who failed the neuropsychiatric examination.
PNP Civil Security Group (CSG) chief Brig. Gen. Benjamin Silo said the five personnel—a police major, three noncommissioned officers and a nonuniformed personnel whose identities were withheld—were charged with grave irregularity in the performance of duty, conduct unbecoming of a police officer and grave misconduct for manipulating the results of psychiatric and psychological examinations from August 2022 to February 2023.
Passing the neuropsychiatric test conducted by the PNP-HS is among the requirements to get a license to own and possess firearm (LTOPF) from the Firearms and Explosives Office, which is under the CSG. Of the 377 LTOPF applicants, 64 did not appear during the neuropsychiatric exam, but still got clearances.
The other 313 failed the test, but were still marked as passed. An LTOPF costs only P2,180.
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