In Philippines’ War on Drugs, Dealers Choose Retirement Over Death
President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody crackdown has suspects surrendering and addicts flooding rehabilitation centers
In Philippines’ War on Drugs, Dealers Choose Retirement Over Death - WSJ
Gov’t, businessmen team up for 911 system
Posted on July 15, 2016
THE GOVERNMENT on Thursday inked a deal with the Foundation for Crime Prevention (FCP) to institutionalize a 911 hotline for reporting police, medical and fire emergencies that will replace the current Patrol 117 system.
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Diokno says ‘pure infra’ expenditure to balloon to 7% of GDP
By ANGELA CELIS
July 15, 2016
The Duterte administration plans to spend as much as seven percent of GDP to “pure infrastructure” according to Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno.
The 7 percent target will be do e as soon as possible, he said.
Diokno says ‘pure infra’ expenditure to balloon to 7% of GDP | Malaya Business Insight
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66 thousand people have surrendered. Pang guiness book of world record na ata ito.
Duterte Latest News: ‘Duterteffect’ Sets New Guinness Record For Most Number of Voluntary Surrender Drug Pushers and Users?
Duterte Latest News: 'Duterteffect' Sets New Guinness Record For Most Number of Voluntary Surrender Drug Pushers and Users?
In 2 weeks: 135 killed, 1,844 arrested, 66K ‘surrenderees,’ 43K homes ‘visited’ | Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
PNP, PDEA destroy P1.77B worth of illegal drugs in Cavite
(philstar.com) | Updated July 14, 2016 - 5:53pm
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Now if we can only ask those who surrendered who they voted for as president last election and if they are really positive of illegal drugs. My point, the supporters will make sure duts will make true his promise on the war against drugs that they themselves will claim they are addicts and volunteer to surrender or take the law in their own hands and execute suspected drug dealers and abusers. The bigger question though is - what about the drug lords? All these naming and shaming is just to condition the tards' mind that something is being done yet there is nothing substantive as to actual arrest beinf made on the bigger personalities. Why dont they send an assassin inside the bilivid prison and kill those CONVICTED drug lords? Why just kill the SUSPECTS? Hmmmm...zarzuela.
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To give credit: They were serious on EDSA today. Lots of enforcers were manning the choke points and keeping cars in line and this resulted in a better traffic flow. Now the next step is to keep it consistent, especially during the evening rush hour where it is worse and most enforcers disappear.
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That, is the reality. However, i do hope they can indeed work on it as part of their admin plan for the years to come (that, is the more realistic thing). Smaller, leaner, but well trained, well-equipped and better compensated armed forces and police force would be a good goal.
Sorry, no PNP, AFP pay raise
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By: Marlon Ramos
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
01:01 AM July 15th, 2016
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Thursday said the government would not be able to fulfill President Duterte’s commitment to double the basic salary of state forces in his first year in office, saying the P3.35-trillion proposed budget for 2017 did not include allocation for such purpose.
Mr. Duterte’s vow to increase the gross pay of personnel of the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines was an integral part of his campaign during the May 9 elections, which he anchored on a no-nonsense approach to solving crimes.
The President said providing better compensation to law enforcement agents would discourage them from engaging in unlawful activities like protecting illegal drug syndicates.
He even dangled cash reward of as much as P5 million to policemen who would kill big-time drug lords.
However, Diokno said the realization of the President’s campaign promise may have to be on the back burner for the meantime as the government would have to address other pressing financial issues besetting the PNP and the AFP.
“There’s none. It’s not included,” Diokno said when asked if the 2017 budget contained the salary increase of soldiers and policemen as promised by the President.
“We’re studying that. In fact, we are trying to consider everything. The problem is that the government already owes so much to the pension fund of the (soldiers) and policemen. It has ballooned,” he said after presenting the Duterte administration’s first proposed budget.
But the budget chief said AFP and PNP personnel would receive a pay increase next year as part of the second tranche of the Salary Standardization Law which then President Benigno Aquino III had signed.
Diokno said he would discuss the matter with Mr. Duterte, who was known to adopt the carrot-and-stick approach in disciplining policemen when he was the mayor of Davao City.
He said he would announce “in two weeks’ time” how the Department of Budget and Management would address the issue.
“We want to bring it up with the President, but we have to be sensitive on how to address this problem. Otherwise, the day will come that 80 percent of the military budget would be on pension only,” Diokno warned.
He noted that soldiers usually “live longer” after retiring from the service at the age of 56 as mandated by law.
“They (soldiers) retire early and … live long. Look at FVR. He’s still alive,” he said, referring to former President Fidel Ramos, a retired chief of the Philippine Constabulary, the PNP’s predecessor.
“In fact, the pension of the military is higher than the salary of the incumbent (personnel). That’s how big that problem is. And nobody talked about this for the last 15 years,” Diokno said.
Asked if the government would have to postpone the purchase of military hardware, he said: “I think so.”
Diokno then broached the idea of enlisting the services of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who, he said, were not entitled to pension benefits.
“For me, I’m for smaller, leaner, better-trained Armed Forces,” he said.
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Who cares when there is plenty of bounty to collect, right?
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Since commentor101 showed that he'd rather believe in what are posted in the news and not analyze the news, let me throw some more numbers.
1.2M illegal drug users in the country.
To kill them all, at average of 12 killings a day (300+ deaths since May 10), it will take 274 YEARS.
For everyone to surrender at average of 1,000 a day (since 60,000+ have surrendered since May 10), it will take 3.2 YEARS for all to surrender.
This is assuming that no new drugs users/pushers/dealers will step into the void.
Php 1.7B worth of illegal drugs destroyed in two weeks. The illegal drug industry in the country is at least Php 375B. So Php 373B more to go...assuming the Mexicans won't take over the market share.
This is a winless war wherein only the poor looses their lives.
Yung 5 generals nasaan na ngayon? Buhay pa and just lying low.
Suppress drugs and eliminate crime and corruption in 6 months? Only fools still believe in this campaign promise.
This will fall into the joke-only category like the jetski rhetoric.
^ I strongly agree, if you are diligent, chances are even if it's rush hour, people will be disciplined and thus ease traffic. Ilan ba sa inyo napapahinto at gusto pa sana magmura sa halip na tuloy-tuloy lang maneho? hehehe
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Hmm....anyone see a pattern here?
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