MANILA, Philippines — Police officers must be given “benefit of the doubt” unless witnesses provide strong evidence of human-rights violations in the government’s crackdown on narcotics, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Wednesday.
“As regards proof of [violations] of human rights in anti-drugs [operations], the presumption of regularity of our operating elements performing their duty remains,” PNP spokesman Police Brigadier General Ildebrandi Usana said in a Viber message to INQUIRER.net, when asked about providing evidence to prove human rights violations in the bloody drug war.
“The same human rights dictate upon a person not to accuse another without evidenc…
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