{"id":175228,"date":"2018-08-06T03:19:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=175228"},"modified":"2018-08-06T03:19:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T07:19:08","slug":"drug-conviction-rate-200-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/06\/drug-conviction-rate-200-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug conviction rate up by 200%: DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109806\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESDS-GUevarra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109806\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESDS-GUevarra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESDS-GUevarra.jpg 394w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESDS-GUevarra-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;With respect to dangerous drugs, the number of cases filed last year rose by 9 percent and with a conviction rate of 208.5 percent, considering the relatively low number in 2016,&#8221; Guevarra said. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The conviction rate arising from illegal drug cases filed in courts increased by more than 200 percent in 2017, Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>During the budget deliberations of the House appropriations committee on the DOJ&#8217;s proposed PHP21.353-billion budget for 2019, Guevarra said the rise in conviction rate last year is a major achievement of the justice department, in contrast to the dismal rate in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Guevarra said from 2,279 convictions in 2016, that figure jumped to 7,032 in 2017 with a conviction rate of 208.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With respect to dangerous drugs, the number of cases filed last year rose by 9 percent and with a conviction rate of 208.5 percent, considering the relatively low number in 2016,&#8221; Guevarra said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that a total of 72,212 drug cases were filed in courts last year, which is 9 percent higher compared to 2016 with a total of 66,306 drug-related complaints filed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the conviction rate of criminal cases also rose by 59.52 percent in 2017 with 42,042 cases resulting in a conviction, compared to only 26,355 cases ending in a conviction in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 294,196 criminal cases were filed last year, 4.27 percent higher than the 282,154 cases filed in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Guevarra said the DOJ&#8217;s PHP21.353-billion budget for next year saw an upward adjustment of 8.59 percent from this year&#8217;s PHP19.664-billion budget.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 2019 allocation, 77.3 percent (PHP16.317 billion) of the entire budget will go to personnel services, 20.56 percent (PHP4.391 billion) will go to maintenance and other operating expenses, and only 2 percent (PHP445 million) will go to capital outlay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The conviction rate arising from illegal drug cases filed in courts increased by more than 200 percent in 2017, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}