THE Philippine National Police (PNP) does not have enough funds to feed detainees locked up in police stations across the country, a senior police official said on Wednesday.

The director of the PNP Human Rights Affairs Office (HRAO), Chief Supt. Dennis Siervo, told reporters in Camp Crame in Quezon City that there are times that policemen themselves pay for the meals of the detainees.

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