![]() ![]() Instead, in an Inquirer report on the revitalized “Double Barrel” project, PNP’s then Director for Operations Camilo Cascolan, who also later became PNP chief, restarted the casualty count on October 26. While this development in the PNP’s operational plan does acknowledge 1,725 drug suspects killed in the preceding months, these served less a starting point for measures to prevent further killings. Of those killed in the drug war during Dela Rosa’s term, six percent were identified as high-profile targets. Throughout Dela Rosa’s term, changes were made to refine “Project Double Barrel.” For instance, on October 26, 2016, “Oplan Double Barrel Alpha” was instituted as a reinvigorated anti-drug drive supposedly targeting high-value targets particularly in the entertainment and government sectors. 1 Series of 2016 for “Operation: ‘Lawmen’.” It institutionalized rewards for law enforcers who conducted successful anti-drug operations. In fact, one has reason to believe that drug killings committed by law enforcers intensified with the release of Dangerous Drugs Board Regulation No. It remains the highest number of drug-related killings reported in a month. In the first month of Tokhang’s implementation, with the PNP under Dela Rosa’s command, 310 persons were reported killed in official anti-drug operations and vigilante-style killings in the country. This claim is put in doubt by a 2016 Philippine Star report that designated Davao CIty as the country’s murder capital from 2010 to 2015. He said drugs in the city went down by 60 percent. In a Rappler report, dela Rosa, who staunchly believes that illegal drugs are the root of heinous crimes, claimed that it was a success. This operation sought to stop the illegal drug problem in the city by knocking at the house of each known drug suspect and pleading with them to surrender. He implemented the prototype of “Oplan Tokhang,” then called “Oplan TukHang,” alongside Duterte as mayor. His ties with Duterte go back to their Davao days, when Dela Rosa served as the city’s police chief from January 2012 to October 2013. Of the five PNP chiefs that served Duterte, Dela Rosa, to date, served the longest: 656 days. Summary of drug-related killings during Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa’s term as PNP Chief. There were 54 victims of non-state agents, 752 were killed by unidentified assailants, and 153 by unknown assailants.įigure 1. Other important details: out of the 3,470 killings, 2,511 of the victims were killed by law enforcers either in official or unplanned anti-drug operations. What remains clear is that, based on our data, the number of minor players (pushers and users) killed far outnumbers those designated as high-value targets. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, on Janureported that from Jto Decemthere were 6,011 “persons who died during anti-drug operations.” The project, on the other hand, recorded 3,470 drug-related killings.Įach PNP chief made his own calculations on how best to conduct Duterte’s war on drugs. These averages are a conservative count that are based on media reports that rely mostly on the police as the primary source of information.īut there appears to be a significant number of drug-related killings the media were not able to report. This is from the data gathered for the project, “Violence, Human Rights, and Democracy in the Philippines” by the UP Third World Studies Center and the Department of Conflict and Development Studies of the University of Ghent. ![]() On average, these are the numbers of those killed in the drug war during each PNP chief’s term: under dela Rosa, three every day, under Albayalde, two under Gamboa, one under Cascolan, one and under Sinas, as of December 2020 at least, two a day. Since the start of the Duterte administration in July 2016, five PNP chiefs have taken their turn in leading Duterte’s war on illegal drugs: Dela Rosa, Oscar David Albayalde, Archie Francisco Gamboa, Camilo Cascolan, and Debold Sinas. Summary of drug-related killings per PNP Chief. That Duterte has almost thrown away a key security agreement in defense of his former PNP chief, speaks not only of the closeness of Dela Rosa and Duterte but of how invested this presidency is in the PNP chief in waging war on drugs. In pique, or so he made it appear, President Duterte abrogated the Visiting Forces Agreement with the US - a decision that has not really taken effect since he eventually backtracked and suspended the termination of the VFA.ĭela Rosa was Duterte’s chief of the Philippine National Police when drug-related killings reached unprecedented scale. Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war may have been the reason behind it. The senator surmised that his role in Pres. Neither he nor the US embassy in Manila said why and when it happened. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa told the press that he was optimistic he will soon have a new US visa.Ī year earlier, he confirmed to the media that his US visa was canceled. ![]()
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