“A reevaluation and scrutiny of our laws against dangerous drugs and of our country’s legal processes [that] relate to these cases are therefore necessary if we’re to catch up with the realities on the ground,” Guevarra said in a speech at the National Summit on Dangerous Drugs Law in Manila.
The disclosures in the Senate hearings “may create not only a disturbing impression of the inability of our legal institutions to address the drug menace, but also of an even more disturbing suspicion of institutional connivance or tolerance toward the source of [the] menace. This we cannot permit,” Guevarra said.
Those assumptions, he said, also “provided fertile ground for the unscrupulous few to exploit the cracks in our laws for their own selfish desires and ambitions.”Guevarra pushed for stricter measures and processes to secure sensitive information during instances of controlled delivery, which he said must be put in place by law enforcement agencies.A review of the rules on handling and custody of evidence should also be made, Guevarra said.
Guevarra also pushed for the standardization and unification of divergent plea bargaining rules adopted by the judiciary and the Department of Justice .
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