Philippine National Police Director General Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa was profusely thankful for the term extension that President Duterte announced on Wednesday and said he almost choked when he was told about it. I was eating at [a] boodle fight … and [President Duterte] turned to me and said, ‘You’re extended.’ I almost choked,” Dela Rosa said at the PNP General Hospital in Camp Crame on Thursday. “I can still run with the criminals, slug it out with the criminals. “That is the reason the President wants me there, to end your merry days of selling and trafficking illegal drugs,” he added. But before he goes to the BuCor in March or April, Dela Rosa said Mr. Duterte wants him to focus on anti-illegal drugs and antiterrorism operations, particularly against the New People’s Army and on martial law in Mindanao.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 14, 2017 23:12 UTC