MANILA – The Philippine National Police (PNP) has tallied around 23,000 killings since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office on July 1, 2016.
The data was from PNP’s Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management.
PNP spokesman Senior Superintendent Benigno Durana Jr. said in a statement that 23,327 homicide cases under investigation were recorded from July 2016 to May 2018 for an average of 33 deaths daily.
Of the total, 2,649 were drug-related incidents, while 10,594 were considered non-drug related. The motives for the 10,084 remaining incidents were still “unknown,” Durana said.
A total of 12,339 complaints have already been filed before the prosecutor’s office and 6,830 charges have been filed before courts. The others were considered “cold cases.”
According to Durana, the PNP Oversight Committee revisited the data on homicide incidents and other crimes in order to “establish accurate and reliable data where we can measure investigative performance of field units nationwide.”
“We also want to use it as input to crafting more effective strategy against incidents of homicide and other crimes, and further improve the crime solution efficiency of all investigative units of the PNP,” Durana said.
Meanwhile, the consolidated data on the anti-illegal drug campaign showed that 4,279 drug suspects have been killed, while 143,335 others have been arrested since Duterte assumed office.
Around 143,335 drug personalities were arrested in 99,485 anti-drug operations while a total of 2,678.61 kilograms of shabu worth P14.34 billion have been seized./PN
