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Friday, April 28, 2017
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ILOILO City – In the war against illegal drugs, jails appeared to be the “weakest link”, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 6.
It’s business as usual for drug personalities detained at the Iloilo City District Jail – Male Dormitory in Barangay Ungka, Jaro district, said Atty. Gil Pabilona, PDEA-6 director.
From their cells they continue to direct the operation of their minions outside, he revealed yesterday at the joint meeting of the Iloilo City Peace and Order Council and Iloilo City Anti-Drug Abuse Council at city hall.
“The illegal drugs supply in Iloilo City will not stop unless those people inside the jail will stop directing their people outside what to do,” stressed Pabilona.
These past “two to three months” PDEA-6 monitored “NBP-mode of transactions” at the Iloilo City District Jail, he said.
NBP is the National Bilibid Prison located in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila. The government discovered that high-profile inmates there such as drug traffickers sustained their illegal drug business from within. They gave orders to their underlings outside using cell phones smuggled inside.
“We in PDEA-6 arrest the so-called big fishes in the city but they continue doing illegal transactions while in detention,” lamented Pabilona, and this led him to conclude that jails were the weakest link in the campaign against drug trafficking.
According to the PDEA-6 chief, this modus was being practiced not only at the Iloilo City District Jail – Male Dormitory but in other prison facilities of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP).
The detained drug personalities were in contact with their shabu suppliers, too, he added.
He declined to elaborate about the suppliers but hinted that PDEA-6 already got intelligence of considerable value about who these people were.
Lowly drug suspects PDEA operatives arrested usually pointed to these detained drug personalities as the ones instructing them where to get the supplies, said Pabilona.
PDEA-6 already called the attention of the BJMP and even the police about the modus so they could address the matter, he added.
At the NBP, the Bureau of Corrections installed signal jammers to disrupt cell phone signals./PN
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