ILOILO City – All police officers of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) will undergo drug tests to ensure the agency is 100 percent free from illegal drugs.
Brigadier General Rolando Miranda, new PRO-6 director, ordered the mandatory drug testing of over 13,000 cops across Western Visayas before the year ends.
This initiative is in line with Miranda’s directive for an intensified internal cleansing, according to Lieutenant Colonel Joem Malong, PRO-6 spokesperson.
The drug tests will be administered by the Regional Crime Laboratory Office and supervised by the Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division.
“This is to make sure that no PRO-6 personnel are involved in any drug activity either as user, pusher and drug protector,” Malong added.
Personnel found positive for illegal substances will be dismissed from the service for conduct unbecoming, she said.
During his recent inaugural speech, Miranda bared his thrusts for Western Visayas.
One of the key strategies he is pushing is going after high-valued drug personalities in Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo, and Negros Occidental provinces as well as those in the highly urbanized cities of Iloilo and Bacolod.
He will also focus on the campaign against illegal gambling, criminality, internal cleansing, and anti-insurgency./PN
