Marcos lauds fewer crimes, human rights abuses in first 2 months of 2024

Manila Bulletin

President Marcos has commended the government's uniformed men for sustaining its good performance in addressing criminality in the country at the start of the year, saying they were done without subverting the rule of law.  Marcos said this as he led the oath-taking rites for newly promoted officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Malacañan on Monday, March 18.  READ MORE: https://mb.com.ph/2024/3/18/marcos-lauds-fewer-crimes-human-rights-abuses-in-first-2-months-of-2024  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00 In 2017, there were 295,382 crimes committed.

00:08 By 2022, this has gone down to 207,143.

00:14 We brought it down further to 198,617 in the first full year of this administration.

00:23 Index crimes have gone down threefold in the same period.

00:27 From 107,899 in 2017 to 38,436 last year.

00:36 In the past year, we also reached 98% crime clearance efficiency.

00:43 And we have sustained this continuing crusade in the first two months of 2024.

00:49 Compared to January to February of last year, there were fewer cases of theft, of robbery, carnapping, rape, and physical injury.

00:58 And we have done it without resorting to legal shortcuts or short-circuiting the process or acts that subvert the rule of law.

01:07 Incidents of human rights violations were down by half in 2023 as compared to 2022.

01:15 It proves that rules that strengthen the fabric of our democracy, rules that our heroes have died for,

01:23 rules that are enshrined in our constitution are not inconveniences in policing,

01:28 but are in fact an integral and indispensable in serving up justice.

01:35 So let me make this clear.

01:37 We should not be content with the current decrease in crime rates.

01:41 While this statistic can be counted and crime incidents reduced,

01:45 even in their diminished state, the disturbance they cause is still immeasurable.

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