Identification of drug affected house clusters, work places, streets, puroks and sitios where manufacture, delivery, sale or use of illegal drugs are being conducted and report the same to the PNP and PDEA; Conduct administrative searches of suspected drug dens/laboratories; Conduct briefing meetings prior to the launching of operations to ensure positive results and safety of the operating teams and the community. Ensure safety of the community and regularity of the operations; Any elected barangay official present during the operations to witness the inventory of seized drugs/paraphernalia; Extend such other necessary assistance to the PDEA and PNP authorities in its operation against illegal drugs including but not limited to the preservation of evidence and protection of witnesses and suspects against unlawful acts. The elected barangay official present during the operations shall execute an affidavit and act as witness in court hearings in the prosecution of drug cases; Submit reports of drugclearing operations conducted, if any, to the City/Municipal Anti-Drug Abuse Council copy furnished the DILG City/Municipal Field Office; For operations conducted/initiated by the PDEA/PNP, an elected barangay official should be involved immediately after the raid and be present to stand as witness during the conduct of the inventory. Source: (Ateneo School of Government (b), 2018) The drug watch lists, also called de facto hit lists (Felbab-Brown, 2017), contains the name of individuals allegedly involved in the drug trade. The watch list is one of the trademarks of the war on drugs (Philippine Human Rights Information Center, 2018). The list had been criticized by various human rights groups since the methods in coming up with the list are arbitrary, baseless and at times at the “whims or caprices of authorities at the local level.” In addition, mass interrogations or sona were employed. “Tens or hundreds of mostly poor men are called out of their homes, lined up, arrested, and questioned. Some of them end up dead” (Fernquest, 2018). The campaign has resulted in 5,000 acknowledged deaths by the PNP. Most of these deaths were attributed to “extra-judicial killings (EJK) and summary executions by law enforcement officials” (The Diplomat cited in Ateneo School of Government (a), 2018). Local and international organizations have contested these figures and insisted that there are at least 20, 000 deaths attributed to the Oplan Double Barrel, and the relaunched version, coined Oplan Double Barrel Reloaded. The leadership of the antidrug campaign was transferred to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) as a result of local and international pressures due to criticisms of grave human rights violations by the PNP. This killing is a reminiscent of Thailand’s antidrug war under Prime Minister Thaksin Shinatwatra, which reported 1, 200 death in its first month (Iyengar, 2016). Table 2: Casualties of the Phillpines War on Drugs, July 1, 2016 to June 2018 Philippine National Police Ateneo School of Government (July 1, 2016 to May 21, 2018) (May 10, 2016 to September 29, 2017) Panaghoy: The Philippine War on Drugs from the Perspective of Women March 2019 Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights) 4