Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 8) — Three police applicants were disqualified while 54 other applicants are under investigation for submitting fake RT-PCR test results in the ongoing recruitment in the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR), according to the Philippine National Police.
PNP Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said criminal charges will also be filed against the three disqualified applicants.
“I have already issued an order to delist the names of all the applicants who deliberately submitted fake RT-PCR tests in PRO-BAR. This order extends to other PROs (police regional offices) and PNP units to do the same. We will not give a second chance for this year’s recruitment to those who would dare bastardize our recruitment process,” said Eleazar in a statement.
Eleazar said the anomaly was discovered when a team from the PNP Recruitment and Selection Unit went to the PRO-BAR to oversee the system amid past reports of irregularities in the police recruitment in the area.
The PNP said some of the applicants admitted that they did not undergo swab tests, but still submitted fake documents. They said they each paid ₱500 for the fake test result.
Meanwhile, some still underwent swabs test but were unaware that the results they submitted were fake. Eleazar advised them to undergo swab tests again and submit their authentic test results.
“We are now conducting investigation to identify all those involved in this, including the personnel of the medical facility which issued the fake RT-PCR results and the signatories in the falsified document, and my instruction is to charge and arrest them all para hindi na makapangloko pa (so they cannot fool others anymore),” the PNP chief said.
More than 17,000 cops will be recruited this year.
