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Former senator Panfilo Lacson admitted that he heard about the rewards system in the Duterte administration’s drug war, but no one testified that police officers get cash grants for killing drug suspects.
During the Pandesal Forum on Wednesday, Lacson was asked about retired police colonel Royina Garma’s testimony before the House of Representatives’ quad committee that former president Rodrigo Duterte contacted her about the creation of a national task force that would implement the “Davao template” on a national level.
Garma said the Davao template is a system where rewards — ranging from P20,000 to P1 million — are given to policemen depending on what kind of drug suspects they killed.
“We have heard of that during the time of former president Duterte, but no one came forward to admit or reveal details about this rewards system,” Lacson, a former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, said in Filipino.
According to him, cadets in the Philippine Military Academy are trained with the concept of having rewards and punishments, but it should not be used wrongly as personnel may only be motivated by a monetary reward.
“If the reward is used in the wrong manner, just like this where the primary reason for killing drug pushers or street pushers is that cops await rewards, it is bad.
