Section 9
SEC. 9. General Qualifications for Appointment.�No per�son shall be appointed to a local police agency unless he possesses the following qualifications: He must be a citizen of the Philippines; He must be a person of good habits and moral con�duct; He must be of sound mind and body; For appointment in the municipalities he must have at least completed high school, and for provinces and cities, at least completed two years college; He must have no criminal record; He must not have been dishonorably discharged from military employment or dismissed for cause from any civi-� lian position in the government; He must not be less than twenty-three nor more than thirty-three years of age; He must be at least five feet, five inches in height in the case of provinces and chartered cities and five feet four inches in the case of municipalities; and, He must not weigh less than one hundred twenty pounds. Persons who at the time of the approval of this Act have rendered at least five years of satisfactory service in a provincial, city or municipal police agency although they have not qualified in an appropriate civil service examina�tion are considered as civil service eligibles for the purpose of this Act.