PS ALICE D VICENTE

PSOCC 2016-01

FACT: If you were PNP Chief Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, how will you solve the
problem and decide on extra judicial killings (vigilante) which accordingly is the
“other way” of PNP’s tactics in its “war on drugs”.

A. PROBLEM SOLVING

1. Problem Scenario

In view of the fact that vulgar language of President Rodrigo Duterte that
police has given an authority/ power to kill drug dealers  in the country including car
thieves. Duterte, who is known as “The Punisher” for his alleged involvement with death
squads and support for extra-judicial killings, has not only called for police and
vigilantes to execute drug pushers, but also for the wholesale murder of drug addicts.
While many in the Philippines and beyond support President Duterte’s
strong-arm statements against those who break the law, such proclamations fly in the
face of basic principles of a functioning democratic state, such as rule of law, due
process and basic human rights. However, Duterte’s swear to quickly smash corruption
and right societal ills without annoying intrusive obstacles are reasonably appealing in a
country where democracy has so plainly failed to deliver.
If addiction is a disease then murdering drug addicts is worst action. No
one wants to be an addict and why or why dole out the ultimate punishment to the
principal victims of the drug trade: the addicts and their families? Addiction is a
response or “adaptation” to living in an unnaturally stressful, hopeless, boring and/or
alienating environment. Drug use was a coping mechanism, as it must be for most
Filipino addicts who live in dangerous, poor and desperate conditions. And make no
mistake — it is the poor and desperate who are being killed by cops and vigilantes, not
the privileged wealthy playboys who enjoy unlimited party drugs in comparatively safe
environments. Duterte’s war on drug addicts is a war on the poor and only the poor.

2. Objectives on how to solve the problem

Categorize the cases if they are drug-related or not and how many of
those killed were users or pushers, determine the motive, and identify the time and
place of commission, the means of commission. Deeper investigation is conducted
supported with evidences to come up with the identification of the real perpetrators of
crime.

3. Problem

Extrajudicial killings and other gross human rights violations in the

Philippines emerged as a public phenomenon. When the government was questioned
about its or its adjuncts’ killings, its standard responses included claiming that victims
had died while attempting to escape from government custody, in armed encounters
with the police, and the like.
The government was responsible for extrajudicial killings and the Supreme
Court’s effort to address extrajudicial killings through the promulgation of the new writs
of amparo and habeas data which were intended to serve as protective tools against
both extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances. The writ of amparo permits
persons whose lives, liberty or security have been violated or are in danger of violation
to seek protection and writ of habeas data, on the other hand, permits the issuance of
writs against violations to rights to privacy, liberty or security.
 Also, the Philippine Act on Crimes against International Humanitarian Law,
and Other Crimes against Humanity and the Anti-Torture Act wherein the Commission
on Human Rights took a more active role in investigation on human rights violations.

B. DECISION MAKING

Since President Rodrigo Duterte won the elections in May during which he
made an electoral promise that 100,000 would die in his war on drugs, more than 300
suspected drug pushers have so far been reported killed by police and death squads.
The extrajudicial killings are likely to continue to intensify after President Duterte
promised that there would be no let up to the campaign to kill drug pushers.
Uphold the law, we assert that extrajudicial killings have no place in a democracy like
ours that is founded on the rule of law and not of men. Extrajudicial killings have no
place in a democracy that constitutionally guarantees against the deprivation of life,
liberty or property without due process of law, and the presumption of innocence.
Extrajudicial killings have no place in a democracy that gives to the courts the sole
power to adjudge guilt and mete out punishment. Extrajudicial killings have no place in a
democracy founded on the principle of legality that requires that the government act
only according to law.
Provide suitable concentration to the serious and credible
investigation and resolution of these incidents and the prosecution of the
wrongdoers to the full extent of the law together with their concerned members of
society to take a public stand for the rule of law and against extrajudicial killings.
Respect the rights of drug suspects and follow due process and fair
hearing on imposing anti-drug campaign and those who violated human rights must be
investigated. Study and reform the criminal justice system in the country and make the
standards of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Philippine National Police
(PNP) and other law enforcement agencies at par with the rule of law.

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