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Sunday, June 4, 2017
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ILOILO City – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 6 aims to declare two city barangays as “drug-cleared” before the State of the Nation Address (Sona) of President Rodrigo Duterte in July.
Making such declaration on Yulo Arroyo, City Proper and Jalandoni Estate, Lapuz is “feasible,” PDEA Region 6 information officer David Abraham G. Garcia said, but he added that “smaller and easier-to-handle” village may be cleared as well.
The PDEA is intensifying its barangay drug-clearing operations in the city.
Of the 180 barangays here, 156 were infiltrated by illegal drugs and none have been totally cleared, Garcia disclosed.
A drug-clearing operation is a “very long” process, “especially if the barangay is severely affected,” he explained.
An orientation among barangay officials, tanods (watchmen), surrenderers, and residents, and various documents are required, Garcia said.
For a barangay to be declared “drug-cleared,” it has to comply with 14 parameters set by the Dangerous Drugs Board, as contained in a PDEA checklist.
The first two stated that there has to be no more drug supply in the village and that the place should not be a drug transit/transshipment area.
“To comply, sometimes they do checkpoints or the tanods roam and make sure nobody is on the streets at night selling drugs or using drugs,” Garcia said.
Numbers 3 to 14 pertain to the production of drugs.
They are not applicable in Iloilo City. Western Visayas is a drug-consuming region, not drug-producing, said Garcia. (PNA)
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