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Palace supports PNP's reinvestigation of drug war killings
Palace supports PNP's reinvestigation of drug war killings
Mary Ann Domingo (center), the wife of Luis Bonifacio and mother of Gabriel Bonifacio, with families of other victims of drug war killings and human rights defenders after the mass outside the San Roque Parish Church in Caloocan City on Saturday, June 15, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File

MANILA — Malacañang supports the Philippine National Police’s plan to reopen the investigation of high-profile killings during the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said Wednesday.
MANILA — Malacañang supports the Philippine National Police’s plan to reopen the investigation of high-profile killings during the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said Wednesday.
The Department of Justice in 2020 began a review of killings in drug war operations and found that police had failed to follow protocol in half of the cases it looked into. It said in 2022 that cases had been filed in just four of 52 cases reviewed.
The Department of Justice in 2020 began a review of killings in drug war operations and found that police had failed to follow protocol in half of the cases it looked into. It said in 2022 that cases had been filed in just four of 52 cases reviewed.
“The reopening of the investigations of the high-profile killings related to the war on drugs should indicate that the Marcos administration places the highest importance on the fair dispensation of justice and on the universal observance of the rule of law in the country,” Bersamin said in a statement sent to Palace reporters.
“The reopening of the investigations of the high-profile killings related to the war on drugs should indicate that the Marcos administration places the highest importance on the fair dispensation of justice and on the universal observance of the rule of law in the country,” Bersamin said in a statement sent to Palace reporters.
PNP PROBE INTO 'REWARDS' FOR DRUG PERSONALITIES KILLED
The Philippine National Police has said it will form a committee to investigate allegations that cash rewards were given to police officers who killed drug suspects during the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
The Philippine National Police has said it will form a committee to investigate allegations that cash rewards were given to police officers who killed drug suspects during the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
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Retired police colonel Royina Garma last week directly implicated Duterte and his former aide Sen. Bong Go in orchestrating a cash reward system in the extrajudicial killings of drug suspects during his term.
Retired police colonel Royina Garma last week directly implicated Duterte and his former aide Sen. Bong Go in orchestrating a cash reward system in the extrajudicial killings of drug suspects during his term.
A former PNP official known for narco-operations in August also confirmed that there was a "quota and rewards system" in the drug war.
A former PNP official known for narco-operations in August also confirmed that there was a "quota and rewards system" in the drug war.
In her affidavit submitted to the House quad committee — four panels holding the joint eharings — Garma gave details on Duterte's and Go's alleged roles in overseeing and coordinating the reward system for police officers who killed drug suspects.
In her affidavit submitted to the House quad committee — four panels holding the joint eharings — Garma gave details on Duterte's and Go's alleged roles in overseeing and coordinating the reward system for police officers who killed drug suspects.
Go, Duterte's close-in aide, denied being involved in the drug war when he served as the president's special assistant from 2016 up until October of 2018 when he started his campaign to be a senator.
Go, Duterte's close-in aide, denied being involved in the drug war when he served as the president's special assistant from 2016 up until October of 2018 when he started his campaign to be a senator.
He was elected in May 2019.
He was elected in May 2019.
Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa, chief of the Philippine National Police in the early years of the Duterte administration's so-called war on drugs, said he knows nothing about a reward system for cops involved in anti-narcotics operations that Garma said was adapted from the "Davao Model".
Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa, chief of the Philippine National Police in the early years of the Duterte administration's so-called war on drugs, said he knows nothing about a reward system for cops involved in anti-narcotics operations that Garma said was adapted from the "Davao Model".
Authorities have acknowledged more than 6,000 deaths in the war on drugs, although human rights groups have higher estimates on the number of people killed in anti-narcotics operations.
Authorities have acknowledged more than 6,000 deaths in the war on drugs, although human rights groups have higher estimates on the number of people killed in anti-narcotics operations.
—reports from Pia Gutierrez and Jauhn Villaruel, ABS-CBN News
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