Manila, April 24 -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday said it would follow the government's non-cooperation stance on the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation into the drug war of the past administration.

"We have courts that can hear any cases of abuse or irregularities among the PNP ranks and we have proven that because some police officers have already been charged, imprisoned and convicted. That is what the PNP will do, we would submit to the Philippines' jurisdiction," PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said in Filipino in a Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum.

Fajardo's remarks came after former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), claimed that the ICC have "directly communicated" ...