MANILA, Philippines — The proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 could have prevented the shooting incident between operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP), a lawmaker said Monday.
Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, who also chairs the House committee on dangerous drugs, said one of the proposed amendments to Section 21 of the law makes body cameras mandatory in law enforcer’s anti-drug operations.
“This could have aborted any seeming illegal activity that were intended to be perpetrated by any personality against law enforcers or could have recorded all activities during the entire…
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