SENATOR RONALD M. dela Rosa, who will chair the public order and dangerous drugs committee, will be filing bills strengthening government operations against terrorism and high-level drug traffickers. The former police general said it is high time to amend Republic Act No. 9372, or the Human Security Act, following a recent blast in Sulu that involved the first known Filipino suicide bomber. “Human Security Act, dapat kagaya din sa ibang bansa, ‘yung (it should be similar to those in other countries, like the) Homeland Security Act (of the US), na you can take those suspected to be terrorist,” he said in a briefing on Thursday. Mr. dela Rosa has also filed a bill, proposing to reinstate capital punishment, but only for crimes involving the illegal drug trade. He also said that he would propose that the death penalty be executed through a firing squad. — Charmaine A. Tadalan

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