PNP: 9 of 10 killings are non-drug related homicides

October 4, 2017

The Philippine National Police said there are only 398 (6.49 percent) were found to be drug-related cases resulting in deaths according to the latest Homicide Cases Nationwide Data from the Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM).

Senior Superintendent Adelio Benjamin Castillo, chief of DIDM’s Case Monitoring Division, said of 6,129 resolved cases, 5,731 (93.51 percent) were found to be non-drug related homicides from July 1, 2016 – September 15, 2017, the PNP said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Philippine National Police has filed 3,475 separate criminal charges against arrested suspects involved in solved slay cases under investigation by police units.

In addition, 2,654 more criminal charges were filed against identified suspects in slay cases who remain at-large and are now the subject of manhunt operations.

The PNP considers a case as “solved” when at least one suspect is arrested and charged in court, while cases are considered as cleared when a suspect or suspects are identified and cases had been filed while follow-up operations for their arrest are underway.

Records from the PNP Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management ( DIDM) show a total of 6,129 resolved cases out of the 15,911 homicide cases investigated by the PNP.

Citing data from the Crime Incident Reporting and Analysis System  of DIDM, Castillo explained the 5,731 non-drug-related homicides stemmed from various motives and circumstances such as arguments and misunderstanding, personal grudge, land dispute, love triangle, family dispute or “Rido”, atrocities by threat groups, business rivalry, road rage, unpaid debt, indiscriminate firing, and revenge. DMS