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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017
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ILOILO City – The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) is checking the handgun proficiency of its personnel.
Starting yesterday, all police commissioned and police non-commissioned officers were required to take the Handgun Proficiency Classification Test (HPCT) at the PRO-6 firing range in Camp Delgado.
“One of our policemen’s concerns is their shooting proficiency. Many police officers and even their commanders lack the will to fight (criminals) because they lack gun training,” said Chief Superintendent Cesar Hawthorne Binag, regional police director.
The HPCT will last until Aug. 10, 2017. It will be held every Tuesday and Thursday of the week.
Philippine National Police’s Director General Ronald Dela Rosa urged sharpshooters in the police service last month to share their marksmanship skills with other policemen to avoid collateral damage, especially in the war against illegal drugs.
Marksmanship skills are important most especially in urban areas, he stressed.
“If there would be encounters in highly-populated areas, we could prevent collateral damage, or those unintended targets,” said Dela Rosa.
Binag led the ceremonial opening of the HPCT yesterday. He hoped the test will boost the confidence of policemen.
“(This test) is about you, about your lives and about being confident in using our issued firearms. That is why we are doing this,” Binag reminded his men.
The test also serves as an inventory of the policemen’s service firearms even if only last month the National Police Commission inspected the region’s cops’ guns.
The Commission discovered that some policemen pawned their guns.
But even as Binag wanted his policemen to be proficient in the use of their guns, he reminded them the importance of having integrity in the service.
“Have skillful hands and pure hearts,” he said./PN
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