MANILA - Police can get anywhere from P8,000 to P15,000 to kill suspected drug users and pushers, according to an investigation released by Amnesty International on Wednesday, titled, If you are poor you are killed: Extrajudicial Executions in the Philippines' War on Drugs.
Amnesty International looked at 33 cases involving the killings of 59 people, and interviewed 110 people from 20 cities in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
One of these interviewees was a Senior Police Officer 1, who was part of an anti-illegal drugs unit in Metro Manila.
S/he said that the police were paid per "encounter", which Amnesty International referred to as "the term used to falsely present extrajudicial executions as legitimate operations."
"The amount ranges from P8,000 to P15,000... That amount is per head. So if the operation is against four people, that's P32,000... We're paid in cash, secretly, by headquarters... There's no incentive for arresting. We're not paid anything," the police officer said.
This proved that there was a "chilling incentive" to kill rather than arrest, Amnesty International.
The police officer even told them that some police had "established a racket with funeral homes, who reward them for each dead body sent their way."
Also part of this "economy of murder" were paid killers, who told Amnesty International that they took orders from a police officer who paid them P5,000 for each drug user killed, and P10,000 to P15,000 for each drug pusher killed.
The two paid killers Amnesty International interviewed also told them that they would get two "jobs" a month before President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office.
Now, they had three or four jobs a week.
Amnesty International also found that the police, based on "unverified" watchlists of drug users and pushers, would "storm" into homes and shoot dead unarmed people, including those who were prepared to surrender.
"The way dead bodies are treated shows how cheaply human life is regarded by the Philippines' police. Covered in blood, they are casually dragged in front of horrified relatives, their heads grazing the ground before being dumped out in the open," said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International's Crisis Response Director
Aside from shooting "defenseless" victims, the police also fabricated evidence and stole from the dead.
Families were not spared from their cruel acts.
In Batangas City, a man was shot dead as his wife pleaded with the police for mercy. Afterwards, the police grabbed the woman, dragged her outside, and beat her up.
Amnesty International looked at 33 cases involving the killings of 59 people, and interviewed 110 people from 20 cities in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
One of these interviewees was a Senior Police Officer 1, who was part of an anti-illegal drugs unit in Metro Manila.
S/he said that the police were paid per "encounter", which Amnesty International referred to as "the term used to falsely present extrajudicial executions as legitimate operations."
"The amount ranges from P8,000 to P15,000... That amount is per head. So if the operation is against four people, that's P32,000... We're paid in cash, secretly, by headquarters... There's no incentive for arresting. We're not paid anything," the police officer said.
This proved that there was a "chilling incentive" to kill rather than arrest, Amnesty International.
The police officer even told them that some police had "established a racket with funeral homes, who reward them for each dead body sent their way."
Also part of this "economy of murder" were paid killers, who told Amnesty International that they took orders from a police officer who paid them P5,000 for each drug user killed, and P10,000 to P15,000 for each drug pusher killed.
The two paid killers Amnesty International interviewed also told them that they would get two "jobs" a month before President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office.
Now, they had three or four jobs a week.
Amnesty International also found that the police, based on "unverified" watchlists of drug users and pushers, would "storm" into homes and shoot dead unarmed people, including those who were prepared to surrender.
"The way dead bodies are treated shows how cheaply human life is regarded by the Philippines' police. Covered in blood, they are casually dragged in front of horrified relatives, their heads grazing the ground before being dumped out in the open," said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International's Crisis Response Director
Aside from shooting "defenseless" victims, the police also fabricated evidence and stole from the dead.
Families were not spared from their cruel acts.
In Batangas City, a man was shot dead as his wife pleaded with the police for mercy. Afterwards, the police grabbed the woman, dragged her outside, and beat her up.
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