{"id":140960,"date":"2017-12-20T21:56:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T02:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=140960"},"modified":"2017-12-20T21:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T02:56:59","slug":"palace-cries-foul-over-reuters-report-on-qcpds-davao-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/20\/palace-cries-foul-over-reuters-report-on-qcpds-davao-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace cries foul over Reuters report on QCPD’s \u2018Davao Boys\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: In a text message to reporters, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. assailed the report as \u201cfoul\u201d pointing out that Reuters did not wait for Malaca\u00f1ang’s side before publishing the article. (PCOO PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday cried foul over a Reuters special report on the anti-drug unit of a Quezon City police station that has been alleged to be the most deadly in terms of killing drug personalities in Metro Manila.<\/p>\n

The report depicts how a small group of police officers from President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s hometown Davao arrived in the Philippine capital and, calling themselves “Davao Boys,” formed the core of a lethal anti-drug unit that has allegedly racked up an impressive number of body count in the administration’s war against illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

In a text message to reporters, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. assailed the report as \u201cfoul\u201d pointing out that Reuters did not wait for Malaca\u00f1ang’s side before publishing the article.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a foul report. (The) reporter demanded out version within the hour at 11 a.m. yesterday (Tuesday). We said we couldn\u2019t (because) of our briefing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Roque holds regular Palace briefings on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that story did not get our side. No comment to one-sided story,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n

According to the Reuters report, Quezon City Police District (QCPD Station 6 was the most deadly among Quezon City’s 12 police stations.<\/p>\n

Based on the QCPD crime reports reviewed and analyzed by Reuters, its officers were alleged to have killed 108 people in anti-drug operations from July 2016 through June 2017, the campaign’s first year, accounting for 39 percent of the city’s body count.<\/p>\n

“Almost all of these killings were carried out by Station 6’s anti-drug unit, the reports show,” the report said.<\/p>\n

“The officers who formed the core of that unit hailed from or near Davao, the southern hometown of President Duterte. They called themselves the ‘Davao Boys\u2019 – and spoke in the region\u2019s language, Visayan,” it added.<\/p>\n

Reuters claimed that Malaca\u00f1ang and the Philippine National Police (PNP) had not replied to questions from Reuters at the time of publication.<\/p>\n

The article was published at the Reuters website on December 19, 2017 at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

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