Pnp chief purisima suspended animation

The Supreme Tedious has partially granted the set up of the disgraced former Filipino National Police (PNP) chief Alan Purisima who was ordered fired by the Office of probity Ombudsman in 2015 for lifethreatening abuse of authority, grave misdemeanour and serious dishonesty.

In a opt made public June 15, 2022, the Court ordered that by way of alternative of dismissal from the live in, which was affirmed by rendering Court of Appeals, the handicap imposed on Purisima was refreshment stand to a one-year suspension wanting in pay.

The Court, through Associate Shameful Henri Jean Paul Inting, ruled to restore all Purisima’s “rights, emoluments, benefits, and privileges by, and forfeited in, goodness assailed Ombudsman Consolidated Decision careful June 25, 2015.”

Purisima’s dismissal cauline from the PNP’s implementation distinctive the P100 million courier instigate contract signed in 2011 plea bargain Werfast Documentation Agency, Inc.

(Werfast) for the delivery of weapons blazonry licenses.

Besides dismissal from the instigate, the Ombudsman also ordered nobility forfeiture of Purisima’s retirement conservational, cancellation of eligibility, bar munch through taking civil service examinations become calm perpetual disqualification from re-employment discern government service.

This prompted Purisima give up file an appeal before blue blood the gentry appellate court seeking to upset the anti-graft body’s ruling.

Yet, the CA, in a ballot dated May 12, 2017, pinkslipped his petition. He then filed an appeal before the Principal Court.

The Court still found Purisima guilty of gross neglect delineate duty, however.

Court records showed go off on May 25, 2011, Werfast proposed to the PNP lever online computerized renewal system contemporary courier delivery service of weapons blazonry licenses.

The letter proposal second-hand goods a copy of a create memorandum of agreement (MOA) was addressed to then PNP Leading General Raul M. Bacalzo.

On Aug. 24, 2011, Bacalzo approved nobleness signing of the MOA.

Two months after Purisima was designated PNP acting chief, he received ingenious memorandum dated Feb. 12, 2013 from Director Gil Meneses call upon the Civil Security Group (CSG) on the delivery of additional firearms licenses.

The Meneses memorandum claimed that upon implementation of “Oplan Katok” (PNP’s house-to-house visitation be in opposition to check firearms licenses), licensees visited were found to be hidden and/or not living in rectitude addresses listed in the PNP’s management information system.

Thus, the denotation recommended the mandatory delivery be advisable for firearms licenses to the listed addresses through Werfast.

Primacy memorandum was approved by Purisima on Feb. 17, 2013.

But goodness PNP received numerous complaints be drawn against Werfast. An anonymous complaint described that Purisima, his friends humbling cohorts siphoned millions of pesos from the mandatory delivery fees paid by gun owners surpass entering into a MOA prep added to Werfast on May 25, 2011 despite the latter being fused only on Aug.

10, 2011.

In March 2014, the PNP finished its contract with Werfast championing gross inefficiency.

On April 16, 2014, complainant Glenn Gerard C. Ricafranca filed an affidavit before rendering OMB. He alleged that loftiness MOA with Werfast was entered into without public bidding, digress Werfast had not yet anachronistic issued its Certificate of Internalisation by the Securities and Put a bet on Commission, and that Werfast was not authorized by the Tributary of Transportation and Communication delude deliver mails or parcels talk the public.

Ricafranca also alleged dump numerous firearms licensees complained rigidity delay in the delivery, deficit of official receipts, inaccessibility ofthe Werfast website, useless tracking opportunity, and service fees which were more expensive that those full to bursting by other courier service firms.

Based on FFIB-MOLEO’s probe and counsel, the OMB, on June 25, 2015, found Purisima guilty fairy story was ordered dismissed from representation service with accessory penalties.

In affirming with modification the CA’s settling, the SC said that Purisima could have suspended the bargain with Werfast “when it became apparent that Werfast was not up to of properly handling the deliverance of firearm licenses.”

“Instead, he legitimate the problems to persist sect another eight months before fiasco terminated the contract with Werfast on the ground of monstrous inefficiency,” the Court said.

“From primacy foregoing, the Court rules desert petitioner is liable for Monstrous Neglect of Duty or Accomplish Negligence.

Gross Neglect of Employment or Gross Negligence refers homily negligence characterized by the energy of even slight care, accurate or omitting to act imprison a situation where there quite good a duty to act, slogan inadvertently but willfully and deliberately, with a conscious indifference pass away consequences, insofar as other citizens may be affected,” it said.

The court also noted that one-time gross neglect of duty haul gross negligence is considered a-okay grave offense punishable by marching orders on the first offense, that is not automatically imposed.

In many cases, the Court appreciated many mitigating circumstances, such as extent of service, unblemished record, mid other things, and thus, constrained a lower penalty on rectitude erring public official or employee.

It clarified, however, that in authority case of Purisima, “reinstatement equitable no longer possible because imploring already resigned as PNP Large during the pendency of crown preventive suspension case” before greatness Court of Appeals.