Police are victims too: PNP Chief Dela RosaPNP Chief Ronald Dela Rosa in gesture during the committee hearing on Justice and Human Rights joint with Public Order and Dangerous Drugs at Senate on Monday, August 22, 2016. Photo by Jansen RomeroLaw enforcers are also victims in the Duterte government’s intensive war on illegal drugs, so said Philippine National Police (PNP) chief director general Ronald “Bato” De la Rosa. De la Rosa pointed this out to senators at the second day of the Senate’s two-day probe into the alleged extra judicial killings and summary executions. This is just to illustrate that there is indeed a clear danger on the lives of our men in the operations against illegal drugs,” Dela Rosa told senators at the hearing chaired by Sen. Leila De Lima. Citing latest records of the PNP, De la Rosa said nine police operatives and three soldiers have already been killed and an over-all 25 personnel wounded while in the performance of anti-drug operations.

Source: Manila Bulletin August 23, 2016 08:48 UTC