THE Philippine National Police was meant to serve and protect the Filipino people but the House quad committee hearings peeled back the facade, exposing a force that sowed fear and suffering under the leadership of Bato Dela Rosa, now a senator, during the Duterte administration.
Instead of justice, the streets were painted with blood and communities were left shattered.
During its recent hearings, ex-Los Baños councilor Norvin Tamisin, who’s wrongfully implicated in the assassination of former Los Baños Mayor Caesar Perez, whose name appeared on the infamous narco-list concocted by the law enforcement agencies under Duterte’s regime, recounted his harrowing ordeal.
Though Perez vehemently denied any involvement in the drug trade, he met a brutal end on December 3, 2020, he was shot dead inside the very town hall where he had served.
With no feud between them, Tamisin suddenly found himself accused of the murder, all based on fabricated witness and doctored CCTV footage that placed him at the scene.
The weight of the false accusations forced Tamisin into hiding, severing him from his family in a desperate attempt to protect them from the same grim fate.
Arrested in Baguio City, he spent seven nightmarish months in prison.
But when the CCTV footage was finally scrutinized, it unmasked the truth: Tamisin was nowhere near the town hall during the assassination.
In a chilling twist, it exposed the PNP, led by then Major Albotra, as complicit in the cover-up, intentionally concealing the real footage to protect the actual killer—one of their own.
Duterte’s war on drugs was not a campaign for justice, it’s a reign of terror, leaving thousands dead and countless innocent lives destroyed.
Fueled by greed and a perverse reward system, officers were incentivized to kill—paid for every life taken, with payouts depending on how influential the victim was.
Under Duterte, the PNP became the executioner of a regime that silenced enemies, real and imagined.
The very institution sworn to protect the Filipino people instead became the engine of their torment, trading justice for cash while leaving a nation in ruins, its people broken, betrayed, and left to suffer under the weight of their corruption.