A Particular Motion Drive personnel receives medical consideration amid swelling on her brow after former President Rodrigo Duterte’s accomplice, Honeylet Avanceña, allegedly hit her with a cellphone amid pressure over the ex-leader’s arrest on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Picture from the PNP PIO)
MANILA, Philippines — The policewoman who sustained an damage on her brow after Honeylet Avanceña, former President Rodrigo Duterte’s common-law accomplice, hit her with a mobile phone will obtain a medal from the Philippine Nationwide Police.
Nonetheless, she has determined to not file costs in opposition to Avanceña, who hit the officer in the course of the tense PNP operation to arrest Duterte and put him on a airplane taking him to the Worldwide Legal Court docket within the Netherlands on March 11.
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Maj. Gen. Nicolas Torre III, chief of the Legal Investigation and Detection Group, stated Friday the Particular Motion Drive officer will obtain the Medalya ng Sugatang Magiting and be granted a three-day go away.
‘Act of the enemy’
The medal is awarded to PNP personnel who’ve been “wounded in motion in opposition to an enemy as a direct results of an act of the enemy.”
Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo, the PNP spokesperson, advised reporters it was the police officer’s “private choice” to not pursue costs in opposition to Avanceña, acknowledging that what occurred was “a part of the hazard of [the] job.”
Fajardo added that the policewoman, whose id was not made public, stated she simply wanted to get well and would quickly be again on responsibility.
The PNP earlier stated it was contemplating submitting a direct assault criticism in opposition to Avanceña following the incident on Tuesday night time on the VIP lounge of Kalayaan Corridor in Villamor Air Base.
Assigned to the ladies
The policewoman was a part of the PNP staff, which included greater than a dozen feminine officers, tasked to arrest Duterte on the request of the Worldwide Legal Police Group (Interpol) and on orders from the ICC for crimes in opposition to humanity associated to his brutal struggle on medicine.
Fajardo stated the feminine law enforcement officials had been deployed “to restrain” Avanceña and her daughter Veronica “Kitty” Duterte, who had been stopping the ex-president’s switch to a automobile that may take him to the airplane certain for The Hague, the Netherlands.
A video launched by the PNP confirmed that the police officer, earlier than being hit by Avanceña, was the one making an attempt to carry Kitty Duterte again.
The officer was dropped at a medical facility for therapy.
Most tolerance
Fajardo stated the PNP staff exercised most tolerance regardless of “all of the insults and curses” from the Dutertes in the course of the 12-hour standoff.
In the course of the confrontation, Avanceña was heard telling the policemen in Filipino: “That is the way you repay him for all the pieces he did for you?”
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Duterte was additionally heard saying “I’m not a legal that you could simply arrest; present me some respect for being a former president.”
