“Maybe a series of meetings will begin to propose investigative efforts, to really propose a credible and transparent investigation… all of these cases mentioned and specified in the Senate and Congressional hearings,” she said .

“Lahat po ito ai iniimbestigahan po ng PNP as I said with instructions to extract the PNP database on these unsolved cases, especially their name during the hearing,” she added.

Fajardo said criminal cases are considered “cold” if there are no developments in its investigation within six months of their occurrence.

During the ongoing investigation by the House Quadruple Committee into the possible nexus between the proliferation of illegal Pogo operations, illegal drug trade, abnormal land acquisitions and extrajudicial killings under the Duterte administration, Col. retired Royina Garma, who served as Cebu City Police Office. leader from January 2017 to June 2019, expressed his belief that the the Loot ambush and the killing of two PDEA agents were both linked to the war on drugs since they were all on Duterte’s drug watch list.

Loot survived the New Maya harbor ambush in May 2018, but four of his companions were injured.