Drilon: Drug war reports have ‘high probative value’

Senator Franklin Drilon welcomed on Thursday the Supreme Court (SC) order directing the government to release copies of police documents containing details about the government's controversial war on drugs.

"This is a very important step because this is the first document that the victims of the drug war can look to for purposes of identifying those who were a part of the operations," Drilon said at the Kapihan sa Senado forum.

Drilon underscored that the documents have "high probative value."

"The after-operation police report is very important because that is done immediately after the operation. It contains the names of the law enforcement officers, the names of the victims, the circumstances..." he added.

On Tuesday, the High Tribunal's spokesman Brian Keith Hosaka bared that
the justices ordered the Office of the Solicitor General to submit the police reports to two groups asking the SC to declare the anti-illegal drugs campaign as unconstitutional.

The SC earlier noted that the drug war reports it asked the government to submit would not have an impact to national security.

The OSG, for its part, vowed that it would comply with the order. —Anna Felicia Bajo/LDF, GMA News