PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte encouraged policewomen to continue strengthening the administration’s campaign against illegal drugs, as he vowed to support them until the end.
“Just do your job. I will back you up, not only as a mayor but as a President. If you do it legally, fine. I will support you to the end,” the President said in his speech at the 9th National Biennial Summit on Women in Community Policing in Davao City Friday.
“Just do it in the performance, in the fulfillment of a duty. Just do it right,” he said.
Duterte urged the cops not to listen to human rights groups, saying that they are the antithesis of government even as he claimed that the crime rate is already going down because of his war against drugs.
“Do not listen to human rights because human rights is always the antithesis of the government,” Duterte said, as he scored critics who do not even look into the number of policemen who die in the performance of their function.
“That is something that human rights advocates do not see… I lose two policemen a day. Two policemen on the average, every day,” Duterte said.
Duterte, who encouraged the police force to continue strengthening the administration’s campaign against illegal drugs, claimed that the crime rate in the country is already down by “almost 50 percent since he took over office.
Duterte also reminded the police that their loyalty should be to the country, the flag and the Constitution.
“If this problem [of drugs] would outlast me for one reason or another… this is one request from your commander-in-chief: Do not neglect the country,” he said.
“I expect that you will do your duty and that you have to survive, you have to kill. I can understand that. And I am just at your side, at your back and you will be protected,” he added.
The President, meanwhile, slammed his critics who disregard the number of policemen who die in the performance of their function.
Talking about the scourge of drugs in the country, the President showed a folder containing a list of names of persons suspected to be involved in the illegal drug trade, among them congressmen, mayors, judges, barangay captains and police officers.
