MANILA, Philippines — Ten police officers linked to the deaths of a 16-year-old boy and his companion in an anti-drug operation in Laguna are now under restrictive custody as an investigation into the incident gets underway, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Saturday.
PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Elezar said he had already instructedCalabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) police director Brig. Gen Eliseo Cruz and the Internal Affairs Service (IAS) to finish the investigation at the soonest possible time.
“In the meantime, I ask our kababayan to let the investigations take their course,” he said in a statement.
The PNP said Cruz hadalso direct…
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