REPORT ON INVESTIGATED KILLINGS IN RELATION TO THE ANTI-ILLEGAL DRUG CAMPAIGN The same statements by the police operatives become the basis of the criminal complaints filed against the dead suspects. Ironically, despite clear legal and jurisprudential bases that crimes are personal to the suspect, the PNP has been actively filing criminal charges even if their targets had died during the police operations. In 86 incidents wherein criminal complaints were filed after death, the victims were charged with violations of Republic Act No. 10591, homicide, murder, direct assault, and disobedience upon agent of person in authority, together with violations of several sections of Republic Act No. 9165. 6.3. Law enforcement investigations on alleged drug-related killings The Commission reviewed police investigations into 182 out of the 246 incidents involving extrajudicial killings by unidentified and other types of perpetrators. Records reveal that witnesses in 82 incidents (out of 89 incidents with available witnesses) were interviewed. This is a stark difference in the availability of independent witnesses during alleged law enforcement operations, which is only noted in eight percent of the total 239 investigated incidents. Information that was made available to the Commission revealed that of the 246 incidents of killings by unidentified and other types of perpetrators, the police were only able to identify and file the appropriate cases in 22 (nine percent) incidents. Several obstacles in the identification of perpetrators were cited by the police. In most cases, the lack of witnesses that can positively identify the perpetrators halted police investigations. In a number of cases where the police identify both the victim and the possible motive as drug-related, their link analysis would point to the possible perpetrators as a certain drug group. Their investigation report would indicate the possible motive as an unsettled drug debt by the victim to the drug group, competition in selling areas, and/or cleansing by the drug group to suppress their identities and that of their network. However, CHR investigation notes that with the vast network of assets and intelligence by the police, coupled with the various support and improvement in its capability, equipment and manpower, no drug group was made to account for killings they allegedly committed, and justice remains elusive for the alleged “drug war” victims. 34