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Friday, February 17, 2017
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BORACAY – Notwithstanding the suspension of police antidrug operations, officers in Western Visayas will continue campaigning against illegal drugs.
Information and rehabilitation programs will go on, stressed Superintendent Gilbert Gorero, Police Regional Office 6 spokesman.
The Intelligence Division will continue monitoring drug-affected barangays in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), said Gorero, also the spokesman for the Boracay leg of the Asean Summit.
“We need to continue the government’s campaign against illegal drugs,” he stressed.
Out of the around 1,700 drug-affected barangays in the region, more than 900 were declared “drug-free,” Gorero said.
Following controversies involving scalawag officers, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered Philippine National Police chief Ronald Dela Rosa to suspend all police antidrug operations and put the PDEA at the helm of the campaign.
And in light of this, all police antidrug task forces were converted into tracker teams focused on illegal gambling and other crimes.
While police are clearing their ranks, they will continue serving as support group, Gorero said.
Meanwhile the Regional Peace and Order Council is asking President Rodrigo Duterte to reconsider the suspension of police antidrug operations.
“The council is appealing to the President that [the suspension] be [applied] only in select regions,” Gorero said.
“[Western Visayas] has no major record of human rights [violations] or extrajudicial killings,” he added. “It has a few incidents, but it is not a major issue among residents and businessmen.” (Jun Aguirre, with Philippine News Agency/PN)
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