MANILA, Philippines — Five years into the national government’s controversial war on drugs, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Guillermo Eleazar claimed on Friday that communities have become “safer” amid a significant drop in crimes.
In a news forum organized by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP), Eleazar was asked to assess the country’s campaign against drugs over the last five years.
“We know for a fact that most of the crimes being committed particularly sa index crimes—itong crimes against persons—is somehow connected or associated with the use of drugs and we have seen the drop by 59 percent to almost 6…
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