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Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan of Bicol Saro party-list group pushes the passage of a bill that will allow law enforcers to get rid of “obsolete and unreliable investigation procedures” such as paraffin testing in favor of modern, science-driven forensic techniques in gathering and preserving evidence in crime scenes.
As envisioned by Yamsuan, modern investigation techniques should be complemented by continuing education and retraining on police operational procedures. He said the High Court has already pointed out that the procedure only establishes the presence or absence of nitrates or nitrites on the hand. This is inconclusive as evidence that one has discharged a firearm because nitrates or nitrites can be absent even if a person has fired a gun, or present if the person has held substances other than gunpowder but with nitrates present in them.
Aside from doing away with obsolete crime investigation methods, Yamsuan said HB 7975 also stresses the importance of securing crime scenes and preserving them with minimal contamination and disturbance of physical evidence. HB 7975 also calls for the creation a Crime Investigation Modernization Committee chaired by the Secretary of the DILG and with the chief of the PNP, the director of the National Bureau of Investigation and two forensic experts appointed by the President as members.
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