The City Prosecutor’s office reported a one hundred percent disposition rate of new complaints, motions for reconsideration or cases for re-investigation and inquest proceedings for the second quarter of the year.
Based on its quarterly report, the office was able to successfully dispose of the 375 new complaints received during the quarter where estafa was the most prevalent cases with 84 followed by violation of the Bouncing check Law with 53, theft – 28, cyber crime and violation of child protection laws 21 each, rape – 16, violation against women and children law – 8, homicide, violation of internal revenue code and robbery – 5 each, illegal recruitment – 2 and murder – 1.
Further, there were also some 120 other criminal offenses and complaints that were successfully decided upon by the assigned prosecutors during the second quarter of the year.
On inquest cases, the said office also disposed of the 68 new complaints that were received during the quarter that were subjected to inquest proceedings. The cases that topped the list of those subjected to inquest proceedings were violation of Republic Act (RA) 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Law with 20 followed by other criminal offenses with 18, theft – 10, violation of child protection laws – 4, robbery – 3, violation against women and children – 2 and rape and cybercrime – 1 each.
For motions for reconsideration or cases for re-investigation, the city prosecutor’s office also successfully decided all the 34 new motions that were received during the second quarter. Topping the list of cases that were subjected to motion for reconsideration or cases for re-investigation were other offenses with 15 followed by estafa with 7, violation of RA 9165 – 2 and violation of child protection laws, violation against women and children, trafficking in persons, cybercrime, murder, homicide, kidnapping, theft, carnapping and graft and corruption – 1 each.
