Rodrigo Duterte defends police accused of killing mayor

Intense talking president says he will go to imprison for policemen blamed for "rubbing out" a medication connected chairman. 

Philippine National Police Chief Ronaldo "Bato" Dela Rosa affirms on charged additional legal killings [Bullit Marquez/AP] 

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte staunchly safeguarded more than two dozen policemen blamed by the administration's principle examination office of executing an imprisoned leader connected to unlawful medications. 

Duterte said on Wednesday regardless he trusts the records of the policemen, who said Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr and another prisoner, Raul Yap, kicked the bucket in their phones when they shot it out with police amid a November 5 assault in a correctional facility in focal Leyte area. 

The president said he was ready to go to imprison for his policemen. 

Following quite a while of examination, the National Bureau of Investigation said on Tuesday it decided the two detainees kicked the bucket in a police "rub-out" and not a shoot-out. 

The NBI, the likeness the United States' FBI, said the policemen most likely put guns and illicit medications in the cells of the two dead prisoners to legitimize the police strike. 

"What the police expressed is reality for me," Duterte said in a discourse. He included he would not permit the policemen to go to imprison. 

The NBI discoveries cast a dark check on Duterte's dangerous against medication crackdown, which has frightened western governments and human rights bunches. There have been doubts that a portion of the more than 4,000 killed sedate suspects may have been murdered intentionally by law authorities and did not kick the bucket in firearm fights as asserted by police. 

NBI representative Ferdinand Lavin said on Tuesday that the agency documented murder dissensions against the policemen at the Department of Justice last Friday. Prosecutors will govern whether there is sufficient confirmation to arraign the policemen. 

All the policemen required in the assault at the prison contrived to slaughter Espinosa and Yap and conceal the killings, Lavin said. 

Espinosa's passing has started wariness even among lawmakers sponsorship Duterte's crackdown as a result of the obvious shamelessness of the killings. He had surrendered to the national police boss in a broadly broadcast occasion after he and more than 160 different authorities were named freely by Duterte in August as a major aspect of a disgrace crusade. 

Espinosa was later discharged, yet was re-captured and imprisoned in October in the wake of being prosecuted on medication and gun charges. 

His child, an asserted medication ruler, was captured in the United Arab Emirates in October and has been repatriated to the Philippines, where he has recognized past inclusion in illicit medications.