The Negros Oriental Philippine National Police Provincial Office has not received any reports of indiscriminate firing by its personnel during the New Year’s celebration.

PNP provincial director, Senior Supt. Rey Lyndon Lawas, said Monday that, based on records from the police chiefs in the province, no incidents of indiscriminate firing were reported to police stations.

Lawas led yesterday’s ceremonial unsealing of the muzzles of firearms of NOPPO-assigned officers and staff, the Special Weapons and Tactics, and the 705th Public Safety Company based at Camp Fernandez in Sibulan town.

The NOPPO and the different police stations in the province had sealed their firearms to ensure that none of them are fired indiscriminately, Lawas said.

Unauthorized firing of these guns or replacement of seals would mean strict administrative sanctions from the PNP.

Lawas said the tape used to seal gun muzzles is signed by a police officer so that it can not be broken and replaced.

Lawas also led NOPPO personnel at Camp Fernandez in the destruction of firecrackers and other pyrotechnics that contained more than the prescribed volume of gun powder.

The items were confiscated by the police during an inspection at stalls at designated firecrackers zones.

Unauthorized firecrackers that had more than a third of a teaspoon in gun powder content, such as the piccolo, “great bawang”, and some types of dancing firecrackers, were among those confiscated and destroyed.*JFP

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