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Bato dela Rosa told: Stop using antics at Senate hearing


Two senators on Thursday warned Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa against using his antics during Senate hearings.

At the resumption of the Senate committee hearing on alleged extrajudicial killings, Sen. Franklin Drilon asked for the copy of the spot report on the killings of drug suspects in different parts of the country which he had been asking for since the last hearing.

In response, Dela said the reports were still being read by President Rodrigo Duterte.

“Nasaan ang spot report,” Drilon asked during the resumption of the hearing on extrajudicial killings.

Sen. Leila de Lima, chairperson of the Senate committee on justice and human rights, said the spot report was submitted right after the second hearing.

“The committee secretary verified that this was submitted already right after the second hearing, somebody called after the hearing to ask to retrieve it,” she said.

Drilon said the “spot report is very important because this is the best evidence on what happened.”

“That is why it is called spot report, agad agad iniimbestigahan ng presinto. Ito yung almost simultaneous investigation. Kaya ang hinihingi eh para makita natin kung ano ang reaksyon sa mga presinto, nasan ito ngayon?” he asked Dela Rosa.

Dela Rosa replied: “Binabasa ni Presidente.”

Drilon then asked if all of the spot reports were with Duterte.

The PNP chief said: “Yes sir, sabi ibigay ko sa kanya. Wala naman po kaming tinatago, gustong gusto [naming] isubmit, kinuha po ni Presidente, sino ang susundin ko, ikaw o siya?”

It was then that De Lima called the attention of Dela Rosa not to speak like that.

“Let me remind General Dele Rosa not use this forum for those antics,” she said.

Drilon also said that it was the committee as a whole seeking the spot report and not just him.

“Hindi ko po kayo pinepersonal at wala akong personal dito. Tayo ay naghahanap lang ng katotohanan, kasama dito ang paghahanap sa spot report,” he said.

The senator then asked Dela Rosa to provide the committee with the spot report from August 23 up to the present time.

Dela Rosa asked that he be given one week to submit the spot reports, saying these will have to be collated from different police units.

He added that he will ask clearance from the President if they can already give the Senate the spot reports. — RSJ, GMA News

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