MANILA - The number of crimes committed in the Philippines dropped by 13 percent in 2016, according to records from the national police, showing a continuation of the downtrend in the last four years, and amid President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs which was launched last year.

Data obtained by Kyodo News from the Philippine National Police indicates that the total crime volume across the country fell from 675,816 recorded incidents in 2015 to 584,809 in 2016.

Nearly one-fifth of the total crime volume in the entire year was categorized as "index crimes," defined by the police as those that are "serious in nature and which occur with sufficient frequency and regularity such that they can serve as an index to the crime situation."

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Crimes in this category -- which includes homicide, murder, physical injury, rape, robbery and theft -- numbered 139,462 for 2016.

Meanwhile, "non-index crimes," or those that involve violations of special laws and ordinances, made up the remaining 445,347 instances.

Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption, a local crime watch group, believes Duterte's illegal drugs campaign has added much to the decline in the number of crimes in the last year.

"He has really shown the political will to curb the proliferation of illegal drugs and to really pin down drug suspects," Dante Jimenez, the group's founding chairman told Kyodo News, stating that that a large number of crimes in the country are borne out of drug addiction.

Jimenez suggested that legislators should also pass a proposed law in Congress reviving the death penalty in the country, as well as a bill lowering the age of criminal liability to deter would-be criminals.

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King of Southeast Asia literally and figuratively slaying the critics, non-believers and haters with statistics once again..Why?!?  

Does that include crimes committed by the government itself?

Won't be long until you have liberals over there complaining about all the "non-violent" drug offenders in jail. They get released and crime once again goes up.

That's what happened here in America. We had our war on drugs, started by Bill Clinton, and it reduced crime huge from the 90's. Yet now we are thinking that all those people in prison for drug related offenses should be released and also lax on our drug enforcement and crime is once again going up.

Trump kill bring down the crime here too. So many criminals they belong in jail or shot down!

When you kill all suspected criminals and everyone who's at the wrong place at the wrong time, what do you expect? He essentially shifted criminal activity from criminals to the police and made it legal.

Excellent Freudian slip.

Crime rate down because the drug addicts and pushers are either scared or dead to steal, kidnap, murder and rape your kids mothers and wives. We're fine. :)

Did the population suddently decrease by similar numbers?

Isnt he the guy who has said that Obama is M-F - word ?

Wait? Hasn't the crime rate been falling for years? According to the very article you quoted the crime rate has been dropping since 2013. And the current President has only been in office since June 30, 2016. How is this his victory?