By Mike Medina, ZampenNews
THE Zamboanga del Sur Police Provincial Office (ZPPO) under Provincial Director Sr/Supt. Ramon Ochotorena is urging individuals with patently loose guns to avail of the firearms amnesty which will end on October 31, this year.
Ochotorena called on gun holders to take advantage of the amnesty program and process their application as early as possible or face stiff penalty and imprisonment if caught after the amnesty period is over.
President Gloria Arroyo issued Executive Order 817, which grants a “final general firearms amnesty” from Oct. 1 to 31.
Earlier, in August, the PNP started the first amnesty, processing those who have expired and unrenewed firearm licenses. The upcoming Oct 1 to 31 will be for patently loose and never-been-registered firearms.
Ochotorena said such an amnesty would lessen the chance of loose guns being used in the upcoming 2010 elections.
The PNP estimates the number of unregistered firearms to about 1,110,277, including 559,326 with expired licenses. Loose guns reportedly account for 97 percent of crime incidents involving guns.
It was also learned that the PNP leadership has long been pushing for the procurement and establishment of a Ballistics Information System, which will do “gun fingerprinting” to speed up the resolution of crimes committed with the use of firearms.
High-powered guns include .40-cal. pistols and up, including automatic rifles and machine pistols while low-powered firearms include .9mm-cal., 38, .32, .25 and .22 guns.
Meanwhile, C/Insp. Rafael Odevillas, during the recently concluded seminar with media members tackling threat detection, counter surveillance, personal security, gun safety, handling and proficiency, said “paltiks” are not allowed for registration or licensing.
Odevillas said a registration payment of P1,000 will be asked for each loose firearm while holders of firearms with expired licenses will pay only P650.
Gun holders who renewed or registered their guns will then be given a temporary license pending the issuance of permanent, laminated gun license.
The ZPPO is authorized to accept and process unregistered guns and those who want to avail of the amnesty may visit their office at
In a related development,
“It is the duty and responsibility of neither persons whose firearms are nor registered, they better surrender it to the police and avail the amnesty or otherwise they will face legal litigations” He said.
Pagadian City had been tagged as killing fields because of unsolved cases in shooting and killings in the past years but local and police officials denied this, however, authorities are now doubling their efforts to solve such crimes proliferated by drugs abuse and loose firearms.
“With this administration, we are now doubling our effort to solve this cases and strengthening our strategies to capture criminals in proper time”
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