Security officials favored the abolition of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) following President Rodrigo Duterte's pronouncements that the constitutional rights body was better off gone.

Aside from this, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Ronald de la Rosa also supported Duterte in his request to the Office of the Ombudsman to consult his office first before investigating any police or military personnel involved in anomalies.

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