MANILA, Philippines — While it is too early to say whether or not the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) were toyed by drug syndicates in the “misencounter” in Quezon City, it is a possibility, PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva said Thursday.
In a press briefing, Villanueva said drug syndicates have already studied the operations and techniques of the PNP and PDEA.
Villanueva made the remark a day after a shooting incident between the operatives of PNP and PDEA during a drug operation—an incident that authorities have dubbed as a “misencounter.”
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