{"id":155024,"date":"2018-03-03T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155024"},"modified":"2018-03-03T00:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T05:41:08","slug":"pnp-thrilled-with-news-of-us-replicating-tokhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/03\/pnp-thrilled-with-news-of-us-replicating-tokhang\/","title":{"rendered":"PNP thrilled with news of US replicating \u2018Tokhang\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_155025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155025\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-3dfedcf98c2f02d41e31788d03c1633702b674ec277f6a2785a961c2e6014796_full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155025\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-3dfedcf98c2f02d41e31788d03c1633702b674ec277f6a2785a961c2e6014796_full.jpg\" alt=\"PNP spokesperson, Chief Supt. John Bulalacao (PNA Photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-3dfedcf98c2f02d41e31788d03c1633702b674ec277f6a2785a961c2e6014796_full.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-3dfedcf98c2f02d41e31788d03c1633702b674ec277f6a2785a961c2e6014796_full-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: PNP spokesperson, Chief Supt. John Bulalacao (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) is very much thrilled with reports indicating that United States President Donald Trump wants to emulate the anti-drug policies of China, Singapore, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is welcome news.\u00a0<em>Kami naman ay natutuwa dahil syempre nare-<\/em>recognize\u00a0<em>ng<\/em>\u00a0US government\u00a0<em>yung<\/em>\u00a0effort\u00a0<em>ng ating pamahalaan laban sa ipinagbabawal na droga<\/em>\u00a0(We are glad that the US government recognizes our government\u2019s efforts against illegal drugs),&#8221; PNP spokesperson, Chief Supt. John Bulalacao, said late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bulalacao said this would inspire police officers to exert more efforts in pursuing the campaign against illegal drugs without sacrificing and violating any human right.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo R. Duterte, in his speech at the opening ceremony of the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines SWAT Challenge at the Ma-a Firing Range in Davao City on March 1, called out the American media for criticizing his war on drugs, when the latter\u2019s own government seems to be mirroring the Duterte administration\u2019s \u201cTokhang\u201d operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Tingnan mo<\/em>\u00a0America,\u00a0<em>tinitira si<\/em>\u00a0Bato.\u00a0<em>Ngayon sino naga-Tokhang?<\/em>\u00a0<em>Sila<\/em>\u00a0(Look at America, they\u2019re targeting PNP chief Bato dela Rosa. Now who\u2019s conducting\u00a0<em>Tokhang<\/em>? It\u2019s them [American government]),\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were able to capture a website,\u00a0<em>tapos lahat ng<\/em>\u00a0transaction\u00a0<em>sa droga, inagaw nila, dinetain nila<\/em>\u00a0in communicado\u00a0<em>yung mga<\/em>\u00a0drug people, and they operated it (<em>Tokhang<\/em>). So\u00a0<em>nalaman nila, lahat tino-Tokhang<\/em>\u00a0(They were able to capture a website, and they seized all the drug transactions. They detained in communicado those involved in drugs and they operated it. They knew about it and conducted Tokhang on every one of them),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) is very much thrilled with reports indicating that United States President Donald Trump wants &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":155025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[420,9869,45291,7983,16251,970],"class_list":["post-155024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-bulalacao","tag-philippine-national-police","tag-rodrigo-r-duterte","tag-singapore","mauthors-riam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}