Policemen in recent years have often been portrayed by Filipino movies in a negative light. Such depictions may be hurtful to honest members of the uniformed force but hardly anyone is to blame what with characterizations ge­nerally based on everyday realities.

In fact, the suspicion that generals are themselves criminals had been brought into the open by no less than President Rodrigo Duterte, who says that a number of them are protectors of drug lords or drug lords themselves, heads of syndicates, or abettors of smuggling and human trafficking.

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