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Chief of the PNP, Lieutenant General Camilo Cascolan. FILE PHOTO from NCRPO website
MANILA, Philippines – The chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Gen. Camilo Cascolan, said Wednesday that killings in anti-drug police operations did not double during the implementation of the blockade aimed at curbing the coronavirus disease.
“The figures did not double during the COVID infection or the COVID time period,” the PNP chief said in an interview with the ABS-CBN news channel, in response to the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report of that deaths from the war on drugs increased during the coronavirus lockdown.
“What I would like to tell you is that it just increased more, but for at least nine or from 200 to 210,” he added.
Citing data from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, HRW said that 50 percent more people died in anti-drug operations across the country in the four months of the COVID-19 pandemic than four months before the shutdown.
In July 2020, 5,810 people were killed in thousands of law enforcement counter-narcotics operations since President Rodrigo Duterte began his crackdown on illegal drugs in 2016.
Cascolan is the author of the Police Double Barrel Project. It included the controversial “Oplan Tokhang” police program, which was activated during the mandate of the former PNP chief and incumbent senator Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa.
Marksmanship training
There is also a need for police officers to improve their marksmanship during anti-crime operations, Cascolan said.
“I didn’t say they tend to shoot, they need the skills to shoot the person sometimes. For example, but once you have the advantage once you have a weapon, you have to be skilled, you already have to be a sniper, ”said the head of the PNP when asked for confirmation if some law enforcement officers have poor aim. .
“What I believe in is that we need to have regular practices, regular filming conferences, and at the same time, we need to have people if they graduate from recruiting. It would be sustained, it would be developing but at the same time for those who do not know the skills right now, they are being evaluated. At the same time, they will be given a lecture, ”he added.
Cascolan said he will seek funding for training that he will present at the Senate hearing on the proposed 2021 budget.
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