Palace cries foul over Reuters report on Quezon City’s ‘Davao Boys’

Malacañang on Wednesday cried foul over the Reuters special report on a Quezon City police station that has been alleged to be one of the most lethal in terms of killing drug personalities in the country.

The report said that QCPD Station Six's anti-drug unit was made up of police officers from Davao City, President Rodrigo Duterte's hometown.

"That was a foul report," presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in a text message to reporters.

He said Reuters did not wait for Malacañang's comments when it published the article.

"[The] reporter demanded [our] version within the hour at 11 am yesterday. We said we [couldn't because] of our briefing. So that story did not get our side. No comment to sided story," Roque said.

According to the Reuters report, Station Six was the most deadly among Quezon City's 12 police stations.

Its officers are said to have killed 108 people in anti-drug operations from July 2016 through June 2017, the campaign's first year, accounting for 39 percent of the city's body count.

"Almost all of these killings were carried out by Station 6's anti-drug unit, the reports show," the report said.

"The officers who formed the core of that unit hailed from or near Davao, the hometown of President Duterte. They called themselves the 'Davao Boys'—and spoke Visayan," it added. —NB, GMA News