MAJORITY of Dabawenyos agree that Oplan Double Barrel and Oplan Tokhang of the Philippine National Police (PNP) are successful in fighting illegal drugs.
This is revealed in the Ateneo de Davao University City Wide Social Survey 9, which was conducted last April 21-26, 2018 involving 630 adults living in the three districts in Davao City.
In the survey, 87.5 percent agreed that Oplan Tokhang (toktok-hangyo or knock and plead) is a successful way to fight drugs, 7.1 percent said that they do not agree, 0.2 percent said they have no opinion about, 0.5 percent refused to answer and 4.8 percent they do not know.
Still according to the survey, 91 percent are in favor of the manner the police arrest those who are involved in drugs, 7.6 percent disagree on the manner of arrest, 0.2 percent has no opinion, 0.5 refused to answer and 0.8 said that they do not know.
In multi-response, 72.1 percent believed those who died in the drug war violated the law, 36 percent believed that they are accidentally killed, 34.6 percent said that they were killed by their own group and 20.3 percent said that those killed were innocent.
As to the opinion regarding the alleged groups implicated in the drug war, 38.6 percent believes that some are members of PNP and members of drug syndicate at the same time, 33.8 believes that they are part of the gun-for-hire operation, while 26.7 percent said that they are members of drug syndicate.
In a multi-response, 71.7 percent recommends that there must be a mandatory and random testing of PNP members in any time of the year, 50.8 percent recommends that there should be internal cleansing of the PNP, 23.7 percent said that there must be training on rights based policing for PNP, while 17.0 percent said that the PNP should just continue their manner of operation.
As to the overall perception on the police, the survey revealed that 67.6 said that they trust the police, 39.8 said that they are reliable, 32.1 percent said that they perform their duties well, 21.4 percent said that they respect human rights, 10.3 percent said that they do not trust the police, 5.4 percent said that they are afraid of the police, 4.6 said that the police do not respect human rights and 2.1 percent said that the police do not perform their duties well.