Philippine police to track down convicted prisoners released prematurely 'dead or alive' Philippine police officers listen to National Capital Region Police Office commander Major General Guillermo Eleazar at a send-off ceremony at a police camp in Manila. The team is among police units assigned to track down and arrest former convicted prisoners who were prematurely freed in recent years under a controversial good conduct law. President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a nationwide manhunt to bring back the ex-prisoners "dead or alive" after more than a thousand of them failed to surrender within a 15-day grace period. IMAGES