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| Photo file of PNP from left, PDEA right (ctto) |
Following the announcement of the
Palace that Philippine National Police will once again help in the drug war, PNP
vowed to take all the precautionary measures to ensure less bloody campaign.
According to PNP Spokesman, Chief
Supt. Dionardo Carlos, a less bloody illegal drug campaign is one of their
three preparations being done now.
He said that PNP leaderships are preparing
to return in the war on drugs as commanded by President Rodrigo Duterte.
“The Chief PNP (Director General
Ronald dela Rosa) wants to take all the necessary precautionary measures to
ensure that it will be less bloody, that suspects are captured alive,” Carlos
said in an interview on dzMM.
If recalled, PNP was taken out
from war on drugs first in January over the controversy created by the death of
South Korean executive Jee Ick Joo. Joo, was allegedly kidnapped and killed
inside Camp Crame by anti-narcotics cops under the guise of an anti-illegal
drugs operations.
When reinstated later, PNP was
kicked out again after involvement of Caloocan police in execution of minors.
After the said incidents that
resulted to Filipinos doubting police reports that suspects were killed because
they fought back, the PNP took a step of procuring body cameras.
“Our operatives will strictly use
body cameras in every conduct of operations for transparency. We are expediting
the procurement,” the PNP spokesman said.
The anti-narcotics unit will be the
priority in distribution of the new body cameras.
The other decision that PNP made
is the continuous internal cleansing with the help of Counter-Intelligence Task
Force (CITF).
Once PNP got back in the war on
drugs, a comparison with PDEA’s performance is expected. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency recorded
only one death since it took over the campaign last October.
Meanwhile, PDEA welcomes the
President’s decision to allow PNP to re-enter in the government’s operation
against the illegal drugs.
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