MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte’s surrender deadline for heinous crime convicts freed through the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) will be until midnight of Thursday (September 19).
After which, the Philippine National Police (PNP) will deploy its tracker team to chase those who refuse to yield to the President’s call.
According to National Capital Region Police (NCRPO) Chief Police Major General Guillermo Eleazar, out of 1,914 heinous crime convicts released under GCTA, a total of 202 reside in Metro Manila.
From that number, only 26 surrendered.
Therefore, a total 176 convicts remain at large and they are the target of the NCRPO’s tracker team.
“All the tracker teams natin of the 176 targets in Metro Manila, they will start their manhunt at 12 o’ clock. They are distributed in the 26 police station,” Eleazar said.
“Within 6 hours from 12 o’clock to 6 o’clock all the 176 addresses, lahat iyon ay pupuntahan ng tracker teams natin, (They will all be chased by our tracker teams,)” he added.
Eleazar said they want to arrest their targets alive as much as possible.
“We want to get them alive, but kung mayroong (but in the event of) aggressive behavior on their part, of course, we have to defend ourselves,” he explained.
The official warned to file appropriate charges against those convicts who would refuse arrest.
Earlier today, four convicts surrendered to the NCRPO though their names were not included in the list of GCTA-freed convicts of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor).
All they wanted, they said, was to make sure their lives are safe.
They are now under the custody of the BuCor. – MNP (with details from Lea Ylagan)
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