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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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Thursday, August 17, 2017
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ILOILO City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) unanimously approved an ordinance establishing the Iloilo City Dangerous Drugs Administrative Board (ICDDAB).
Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog pushed for the Board’s creation to strengthen the city government’s programs against illegal drugs.
“Kun kabalo ka nga ang isa ka lugar ginagamit as drug den or ginagamit sa mga drug transactions or naga-manufacture, pwede mo ma-report sa Board. May rules and regulations na sya. May rules of procedure man. Ang gina-target is to eradicate areas kon sa diin nagakatabo ang drug transactions,” said Councilor R Leone Gerochi, author of the ordinance.
Gerochi is the chairman of the SP committee on good government and public accountability that held public hearings on the Board’s creation. He said the Board is in accordance with Republic Act (RA) 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
ICDDAB will function differently from the Iloilo City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (ICADAC), stressed Gerochi.
Citing the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of RA 9165, the Dangerous Administrative Board “shall accept and investigate complaints on drug-related activities and shall generally target drug dealers, dens and warehouses.”
Also based on the IRR, the minimum composition of the Board are the municipal health officer, legal officer and Philippine National Police representative.
The ICDDAB will have the following functions and authority:
- accept notarized complaints regarding any place or premises within the city that have been used on two or more occasions as site or venue or drug dens for pot sessions and other similar activities
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hear, accept evidence, resolve and impose penalty
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file a complaint seeking permanent injunction against any place or premises declared after due proceedings, as nuisance./PN
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