6,600 killed in war vs drugs from July 2016 to May 2019 — PNP
Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:38:25 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — A total of 6,600 persons linked to the illegal drug trade have been killed since the start of the government’s war against drugs, data from the Philippine National Police (PNP) revealed Tuesday.
The data, which covers incidents from July 1, 2016 — a day after President Rodrigo Duterte took his oath as Chief Executive — until May 2019, was presented during a command conference of top police officials at Camp Crame. The presentation of the data was made a little over a month before the President delivers his fourth State of the Nation Address on July 22.
For the same period, anti-drug operatives arrested 240,565 drug personalities in 153,276 police operations nationwide with 1,283,409 surrendering.
Meanwhile, a total of 822 drug personalities were killed since January until May this year. Also arrested were 38,937 suspects in a total of 25,338 anti-drug operations conducted.
During the same period, 2,865 were subjected to “Oplan Tokhang,” the PNP’s centerpiece strategy in the war on drugs, while 2,755 surrendered to police.
CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) Police (Police Regional Office-4A) had the most “Oplan Tokhang” accomplishments for May, with 502 tokhang activities conducted and 281 drug personalities surrendering.
Data from the PNP also showed that as of April 2019, the illegal drug trade remains active in 20,471 villages or 48.69 percent of 42,045 villages in the country.
The PNP said 282 villages are seriously affected by drugs, 10,835 are moderately affected, and 9,354 are slightly affected. (Editor: Mike U. Frialde)