The House committee on human rights on Wednesday issued a show cause order against a Philippine National Police official for failing to attend the hearing on extrajudicial killings under the Duterte administration.The show cause order was issued against Police Major General Romeo Caramat Jr., the former chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and currently the acting area commander of Northern Luzon.“There are still resource persons who are invited.
Some solons also lamented that many resource persons, mostly from the PNP, did not attend the hearing.Most of them, however, were able to provide an excuse or had not officially received the invitation yet.Earlier, House Assistant Minority Leader Arlene Brosas lauded the hearing as “historical,” stressing that it was the first hearing on drug war killings since the campaign started in 2016.