section_path: Background/Preparation for Duterte's arrest
section_name: Preparation for Duterte's arrest
paragraph_text: Preparation for Duterte's arrest
  
  In May 2024, the Department of Justice began briefing President Marcos on the possible scenarios in ICC issuing a warrant of arrest for Duterte, as well as its legal team's preparations for how to handle it.
  
  According to The New York Times, in preparation for the possible issuance of an arrest warrant by the ICC, the Philippine National Police (PNP) had discreetly prepared an 80-page plan for Duterte's arrest with the code name Operation Pursuit. In it, they laid out scenarios for how the arrest of Duterte might play out in either Manila or Davao City, with maps of Duterte's properties as well as his allies' properties included in the document. PNP police general Nicolas Torre himself later admitted to planning the entire operation once it was entrusted to him, stating that "I really told them that let me succeed and fail on my plans. Because if I succeed, I succeed based on my plans. If I fail, I fail on my plans also, so there's no one else to blame but me."