BOCAUE, Bulacan — The Philippine National Police has confirmed on Friday (Dec. 29) that they have recently confiscated thousands of boxes of smuggled imported finished pyrotechnics devices in Bulacan.
This was confirmed by Brig. Gen. Lyndon Mencio, chief of the Firearms Explosive Office-Civil Security Group (FEO-CSG,) of the Philippine National Police, confirmed in a press conference on Friday during the joint fireworks stores inspections in Bocaue conducted by National Police chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. together with the Pyrotechnic Regulatory Board of Bulacan chaired by Gov. Daniel Fernando.
Mencio said that their operatives together with those from the Bulacan Provincial Police Office have recently confiscated in Bulacan more than 5,000 boxes of imported finished pyrotechnic devices.
However, Mencio did not identify who imported the products and did not specify if he or she was placed behind bars.
He added that necessary charges were filed against those involved in the illegal importation of the finished imported pyrotechnic devices and the confiscated products were properly disposed off as witnessed by pyrotechnics stakeholders, local officials and members of the media.
Grapevine sources claimed that the smuggled pyrotechnics devices were intercepted in Baliwag City.
Republic Act 7183 or the Act Regulating the Sale, Manufacture, Distribution, and Use of Firecrackers and other Pyrotechnic Devices prohibits the importation of finished pyrotechnics products into the country. (UnliNews Online)
