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MANILA - Despite a strong public support for the administration's war on drugs, the majority still does not agree on the methods used by law enforcers, a spokesperson for the polling agency said Monday.

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"Although support is very high, as can be seen in our survey, there continues to be some apprehensions about how this campaign is conducted, specifically with the view of the truthfulness of the police reports about the suspects resisting them," Leo Laroza, SWS director for Communication and Information Technology told ANC's Dateline Philippines.

"We’ve already seen from past rates that the plurality or the bigger portion of our respondents said they are not sure whether the police are telling the truth about reports of nanlaban," he said.

The government's anti-drugs campaign has seen some 4,200 drug suspects killed and around 142,000 others arrested since 2016, according to police data released last April.

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A Social Weather Stations poll conducted on 1,200 adults in June found that there was a +65 net satisfaction on the campaign against illegal narcotics, but "there continues to be some apprehension on some of the aspects."

Asked if the survey results, as released last Saturday, showed that the loss of lives during the administration's campaign is now accepted, Laroza said: "No, not at all."

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The campaign has drawn widespread criticism for alleged state-sponsored killings, which the government has denied.

President Rodrigo Duterte, in his State of the Nation Address last July, said the drive will be as "relentless" and "chilling" as the day it started 2 years ago.

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