Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 19) — The Mandaluyong policemen involved in a chase gone wrong are getting some help, the Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief said Friday.

"Nagpu-put up kami ng pera ngayon, kung paano matulungan yung mga pulis na iyon makapag-bail," Director General Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa told CNN Philippines' The Source.

[Translation: We're raising money now to help those policemen bail out.]

"That's our moral responsibility dahil mga tao rin namin iyon [because they are our personnel], and they were performing their duties at the time," he added.

The ten policemen are facing charges of homicide following a botched operation in Mandaluyong last December. Responding to another shooting, police gave chase to a car they believed carried the gunman.

The van was later discovered as actually rushing a shooting victim to the hospital. Shooting from the police killed one of the civilians in the vehicle, while the first shooting victim died in the hospital.

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The police officers, along with Mandaluyong City police chief Senior Supt. Moises Villaceran, were dismissed. They said they were fed the wrong information by barangay tanods, three of whom were also charged with homicide.

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Dela Rosa defended his men, believing it was an honest mistake.

"Although pumalpak, nagkamali — but still, deep inside them, wala silang ill motive sa ginagawa nilang lakad na iyon," he said.

[They might have failed, made a mistake — but still, deep inside them, they had no ill motive.]

While the death of a victim will be unacceptable to the surviving families, even if it was not done on purpose, Dela Rosa said, "Kahit sa amin, hindi acceptable yun. Pero, sh*t happens."

[Failure isn't acceptable to us either. But sh*t happens.]