Only the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is authorized to release the data on the anti-illegal drug campaign as ordered by Malacañang, the spokesperson of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Friday. The PNP Directorate for Operations, since the Oplan Tokhang was relaunched in January, sends weekly all the updates related to the anti-illegal drug campaign. These include the following: the number of Tokhang operations and surrenderers; the number of anti-illegal drug operations and drug personalities arrested and killed; and the number of individuals included in the drug watchlist. In a resolution, the High Court said that the killings under the anti-illegal drug campaign may possibly be state-sponsored because the death toll is listed among the government’s accomplishments in the Duterte administration’s 2017 Yearend Report. ADVERTISEMENTAs of April 9, the law enforcement agencies conducted a total of 83,057 anti-illegal drug operations, while 130,271 have been arrested and 4,128 have been killed since the start of the anti-illegal drug campaign on July 1, 2016.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 13, 2018 12:11 UTC