''S.O.C.O.: Scene of the Crime Operatives'' also known as ''SOCO'' was a Philippine investigative docudrama program broadcast on

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. Hosted by

Gus Abelgas Gus Abelgas (born October 22, 1962) is a Filipino broadcast journalist known for his work in '' S.O.C.O. (Scene of the Crime Operatives)''. Early life and education Gus Abelgas was born to a poor family. His father who worked as driver and his m ...

, it premiered from November 23, 2005, to October 17, 2020. The program primarily aims to find answers to serious crimes with the help of forensic investigators and the local police.

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The program originally aired on Friday late nights before it was eventually transferred to Saturday afternoons in July 2012. On March 21 to May 2, 2020, ''S.O.C.O.'' was temporarily suspended when it temporarily stopped airing new episodes due to the quarantine caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and ABS-CBN stopped its free-to-air broadcast operations as ordered by the

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(NTC) due to the lapsing of the network's legislative franchise. As a result, the program released new episodes through its social media accounts. On June 13, 2020, the program returned via pay television network

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. On October 17, 2020, the program ended to give way to the third season of

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. ''S.O.C.O.'' is also aired on DZMM TeleRadyo initially as first-run on September 8, 2011, every Thursday at 9:15 PM. This edition ran for eleven months until July 6, 2012. On April 20, 2017, the program returned to DZMM TeleRadyo as a rerun of its previous episodes, which airs every Thursday at 2:00 PM and Friday at 1:00 AM.

Radio program

''S.O.C.O. sa DZMM'' is also aired every Saturdays at 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM on

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and DZMM TeleRadyo. The program is anchored by

and David Oro.

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