{"id":157903,"date":"2018-03-23T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=157903"},"modified":"2018-03-23T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T16:31:42","slug":"bato-on-13-drug-suspects-deaths-it-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/23\/bato-on-13-drug-suspects-deaths-it-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bato on 13 drug suspects\u2019 deaths: It happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<ul id=\"attachment_149533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 960px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dela-Rosa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149533\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dela-Rosa.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa (Photo: Philippine National Police\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dela-Rosa.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dela-Rosa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Dela-Rosa-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a>FILE: Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pnp.pio\/photos\/a.1897477986960115.1073742076.462115693829692\/1897478240293423\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pnp.pio\/\">Philippine National Police\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald \u201cBato\u201d dela Rosa said that in the anti-illegal drug operations performed by the police, deaths occur when suspects resist arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Mangyari at mangyari talaga \u2018yan kapag magsipag ang ating mga pulis, \u2018yung ating mga<\/em> drug enforcement units <em>na magtrabaho<\/em> (That happens when our police work hard, if our drug enforcement units do their jobs),\u201dhe said.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the PNP Chief said that the media should see the gravity of the drug condition in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Huwag ninyong masyadong magtutok doon sa namatay, tutukan niyo \u2018yung nahuli natin ngayon, sa isang araw ilang libo ang nahuhuli at ilang libo ang nag-su<\/em>-surrender <em>sa isang araw. Ganon katindi ang problema natin sa droga ngayon <\/em>(Do not focus on the dead, you should focus on the suspects captured, in which in a day, thousands are nabbed and a thousand surrendered in that day. That is the gravity of our drug situation now),\u201d Dela Rosa insisted.<\/p>\n<p>On March 22, Bulacan Police Provincial Office head Senior Superintendent Romeo Camarat reported that 13 drug dealing suspects lost their lives in buy-buy operations by the police, which also arrested more than 100 others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, 13 of the suspects were killed when our officers fired in self-defense shortly after the suspects who were armed with concealed guns sensed they were being entrapped and started firing,\u201d Camarat explained.<\/p>\n<p>In October last year, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte ordered the PNP to step down from the drug war operations after criticisms of their controversial Oplan Tokhang.<\/p>\n<p>(Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/12\/pnp-bids-goodbye-to-tokhang\/\">PNP bids goodbye to \u2018Tokhang\u2019<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Before the year ended though, the PNP returned but is under the supervision of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Dela Rosa earlier said that he wanted a less bloody campaign in the policemen\u2019s comeback<\/p>\n<p>(Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/05\/pnp-aims-a-less-bloody-drug-war-upon-return\/\">PNP aims a \u2018less bloody\u2019 drug war upon return<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE: Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa (Photo: Philippine National Police\/Facebook) Philippine National Police (PNP) chief &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":149533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[7983,48916,10792,16451],"class_list":["post-157903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-philippine-national-police","tag-romeo-camarat","tag-ronald-dela-rosa","tag-tokhang","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157903","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=157903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}