Philippines’ cash-strapped cops cheer new crime-buster president
By Karen Lema and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) – The police force in Manila is so underfunded that officers say they have to buy their own bullets and it is not uncommon for funeral service cars to give cops a lift along to murder scenes because they have no vehicles of their own. Enter Rodrigo Duterte, who won this week's presidential election in the Philippines on a single-issue campaign of crushing crime, corruption and drug abuse. Duterte&039;s message, unpolished and peppered with profanities, tapped into popular alarm over a drug-fuelled jump in crime.
