Part II Community-Based Forest Management Program - ppmrn

APPROPRIATE SAFEKEEPING PROCEDURES
be utilized, particularly for their rehabilitation projects. The products subject to
disposition are:
• Those which are not subject of a pending case in court or with other
appropriate offices;
• Those without claimants or offenders against whom the case could be filed;
• Those found abandoned within forest areas, the ownership of which could
not be ascertained and without claimants.
Despite directives to all Regional Executive Directors (RED) to fast track
issuance of Forfeiture Orders on all confiscated forest product, disposal was
nonetheless delayed resulting in accumulation of confiscated items which could
no longer be protected by DENR Offices. As of December 31, 2005,
confiscated conveyances and forest products in selected PENROs & CENROs
of the four DENR Regional Offices visited by the team were valued at
P12,375,316.96 as summarized below:
PENRO/ Conveyances Chainsaw Forest Products
CENRO Pcs Amount Pcs Amount Bd. Ft. Amount
Total
Amount
PENRO Palawan 4 P570,000 5 P143,690 135,948.31 P 3,355,889.05 P4,069,579.05
PENRO Leyte 10 1,630,000 1 data 89,907.00 2,818,570.11 4,448,570.11
CENRO Bayombong 12 No data 12,946.00 31,688.00 31,688.00
PENRO Bukidnon 12 1,628,000 3 100,000 119,289.39 2,097,479.80 3,825,479.80
Total 38 P3,828,000 9 P243,690 358,090.70 P8,303,626.96 P12,375,316.96
Note: The volume and no. of pieces included those items without estimated values.
The delayed disposal may be due to delayed issuance of forfeiture orders which
took 56 to 2,163 days from the date of apprehension as illustrated below:
Province
Date of
Apprehension
Date of
Forfeiture
Lag time
(days)
Palawan 03-04-99 04-13-00 405
08-23-98 10-10-02 1,508
09-25-01 11-20-01 56
06-07-01 07-02-04 1,058
Leyte 06-03-99 01-29-03 1,331
02-21-97 01-29-03 2,163
02-14-00 01-29-03 1,075
07-22-00 03-20-03 603
09-02-01 12-10-01 98
07-25-00 02-21-01 206
Bukidnon 07-18-03 06-21-04 333
01-21-04 07-26-04 185
01-21-04 07-16-04 175
03-16-04 07-16-04 120
02-02-04 06-02-04 120
04-13-04 07-26-04 103
02-26-04 06-02-04 96
This condition may have been influenced by the absence of timeline within
which to issue forfeiture orders. The prolonged processing of forfeiture orders
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