3 police applicants in BAR arrested, another being hunted for submitting fake swab test result
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has placed under arrest three police applicants at the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (BAR) for deliberately submitting fake swab test results.
PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar said one of the three police applicants had to be taken to an isolation facility after he was found out to be positive for coronavirus.
Eleazar said that a fourth applicant was able to evade arrest but will be charged and be subjected to follow-up operations for submitting the fake swab test result. The PNP Chief said that the four applicants deliberately submitted the fake RT-PCR tests which made them liable for the deception.
He said there were actually 66 police applicants who submitted bogus RT-PCR test results during the PRO-BAR recruitment, but the other 62 were cleared of wrongdoing because they themselves did not know that the results they submitted were fake.
At the same time, PGen Eleazar tasked all police units that were given allocation for the more than 17,000 slots that would be recruited his year to coordinate with the PNP Recruitment and Selection Service Unit to check if there are incidents similar to what was discovered in PRO-BAR.
"The purpose of our reform in the recruitment system is to ensure that only qualified applicants would enter the police organization. These four applicants have not yet entered the PNP, yet they had this courage to fake the RT-PCR. They thought they could do away with it so right, now they will be charged and will be blacklisted," said Eleazar.
“This should serve as a warning to all police applicants who are planning to do something illegal in the recruitment process,” he added.