Manila, July 12 -- he Philippine National Police (PNP) will remain vigilant to prevent crimes and will continue to perform its mandate to enforce the law following established operational procedures, with the utmost respect for human rights, an official said Friday.

"On our part, we will just do our work and the issues that they are discussing, we have leaders in our country, officers of the government, who are dealing with this. For the PNP, this won't affect our work," National Capital Region Police Office director Maj. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar told reporters at the sidelines of an event at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City.

"We continue to our doing but rest assured what we are doing is based on human rights based on the observation of law...