{"id":159818,"date":"2018-04-13T03:21:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T07:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159818"},"modified":"2018-04-13T03:21:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T07:21:19","slug":"pnp-maintains-drug-war-constitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/13\/pnp-maintains-drug-war-constitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"PNP maintains drug war constitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del><\/del>The Philippine National Police (PNP) defended the constitutionality of the Duterte administration&#8217;s campaign against illegal drugs, downplaying the Supreme Court\u2019s claims that deaths in the drug war operations were state-sponsored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe maintain that the PNP campaign against illegal drugs is constitutional, legal and implemented in the interest of public safety,\u201d PNP spokesman Chief Supt. John Bulalacao said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that allegations that human rights are violated in the police operations \u201care part of the healthy democracy that the country has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The High Court said that the number of killed drug suspects indicated in the administration&#8217;s 2017 year-end report as among its accomplishments \u201cmay lead to\u00a0the inference that these are state-sponsored killings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has required the government to release all records related to the Duterte administration\u2019s war on drugs. In response to this,\u00a0the PNP earlier\u00a0said it is willing to give the Court the documents it is requesting but \u201cnot everything\u201d as it may pose threat to uniformed men and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 04\/ 13\/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine National Police (PNP) defended the constitutionality of the Duterte administration&#8217;s campaign against illegal drugs, downplaying the Supreme Court\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159818","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=159818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}