This was the dire picture of detainees in the Tondo police station presented by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in asking the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate the detention of 12 suspects at a secret detention cell. The secret cell exposed the squalid conditions for Tondo’s 12 detainees in the administration’s intensified campaign against drugs. ADVERTISEMENTIn a letter to Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales, Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit said the CHR found “sufficient cause” for the anti-graft office to investigate Supt. In a statement, CHR Commissioner Dumpit said the CHR was now turning over to the Ombudsman its findings on the secret cell for its appropriation action and investigation. The police chief even said there was nothing wrong with the secret cell as long as the detainees were not tortured or extorted by the police.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 10, 2017 12:33 UTC