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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
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ILOILO City – The City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) is Iloilo City Police Office’s (ICPO) lead group in the campaign against illegal drugs.
It is made up of 24 policemen that Senior Superintendent Henry Biñas, city police director, liked to call “Tokhangers.”
“We are very careful in conducting (Tokhang) operations because of the new guidelines,” Biñas said.
“Tokhang” is a portmanteau or combination of Bisaya words toktok (knock) and hangyo (plead).
Biñas said CDEU’s 24 “Tokhangers” will conduct house-to-house visitations of their “priority targets.”
The Philippine National Police’s supplemental operational guidelines in antidrug operations must be followed, he stressed.
Under the supplemental guidelines, antidrug operations must be carried out only between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday.
PNP’s Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said the supplemental guidelines were “essentially founded on the fundamental principles of respect for human rights and strict adherence to the rule of law, with greater emphasis on transparency, accountability and command responsibility.”
These past two months, the CDEU managed to arrest 40 drug suspects. But Biñas said the unit was targeting 90 more.
He urged these personalities to better surrender to avoid being subjected to toktok and hangyo.
The 40 drug suspects the CDEU arrested were the results of 28 antidrug operations. Superintendent Rogen Morales, CDEU chief, said 36 of these were “newly identified.”
Meanwhile, Morales said, 14 drug personalities voluntarily surrendered.
“Drug pushers are now wiser when making transactions. They know we are intensifying our campaign,” said Morales.
The most recent drug suspects arrested in this city were collared at Smallville Complex in Barangay San Rafael, Mandurriao district. One of the three suspects was a minor from Barangay Desamparados, Jaro district.
A total of 18 sachets of shabu were seized from Marcus Philip Estellogo and Lindoy Aristoza, both from Barangay Desamparados, too.
The sachets were valued at P37,600./PN
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