MANILA - Plain clothes “secret marshals” have been deployed on public transport in Manila with orders to shoot down armed robbers in a crackdown against violent crime, the city’s newly appointed police chief said Friday. In a message to armed criminals who victimise bus and public transport users, Chief Superintendent Leonardo Espina said: “If you want to live longer, then stop your criminality, stop the crimes that you create, because if you give us the opportunity to (get into a firefight) with you, we will do so.” The police chief, who assumed his post two weeks ago, was speaking on a tour of police stations in the capital of 15 million people.
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