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Philippines: anti-drugs units to disband after South Korean man killed by police
Source: Reuters
Philippines: anti-drugs units to disband after South Korean man killed by police
Reuters
Sunday 29 January 2017 19.57 GMT
The Philippines police will disband anti-drugs units following the killing of a South Korean businessman by rogue officers, but the country’s president vowed on Sunday to forge ahead with his war on drugs until the last day of his term in 2022.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he was “embarrassed” that anti-drugs officers had abused their power to engage in kidnapping, leading to the death by strangulation of Jee Ick-joo, on the grounds of the national police headquarters.
Duterte said other suspects were still at large and gave them 48 hours to turn themselves in, or have a dead-or-alive bounty on their heads of 5 million pesos ($100,000).
His police chief, Ronald dela Rosa, said the breakup of anti-drugs units was necessary to rebuild them, but it could disrupt the progress of the campaign.
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Reuters
Sunday 29 January 2017 19.57 GMT
The Philippines police will disband anti-drugs units following the killing of a South Korean businessman by rogue officers, but the country’s president vowed on Sunday to forge ahead with his war on drugs until the last day of his term in 2022.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he was “embarrassed” that anti-drugs officers had abused their power to engage in kidnapping, leading to the death by strangulation of Jee Ick-joo, on the grounds of the national police headquarters.
Duterte said other suspects were still at large and gave them 48 hours to turn themselves in, or have a dead-or-alive bounty on their heads of 5 million pesos ($100,000).
His police chief, Ronald dela Rosa, said the breakup of anti-drugs units was necessary to rebuild them, but it could disrupt the progress of the campaign.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/philippines-disband-police-anti-drugs-units-war-rodrigo-duterte-south-korea
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