THE Court of Appeals (CA) has nullified the order issued by the Ombudsman in January placing 22 Davao high-raking police officers under six-month preventive suspension for their failure to resolve more than 300 cases of summary executions recorded from 2005 to 2008 allegedly perpetrated by the so-called Davao Death Squad.

In a 12-page ruling issued by Associate Justice Mario Lopez, the CA’s Former Special Sixteenth Division held that the Ombudsman committed grave abuse of discretion for sole...