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Monday, May 22, 2017
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ILOILO City – This city has 180 baranngays. How many village councils have succeeded in making their areas drug-free?
The Oversight Committee on the Barangay Drug-Clearing Program is set to review each barangay’s antidrug programs. Regional Director Gil Pabilona of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) chairs the committee.
Recently, barangay captains were summoned to a meeting with PDEA, Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog and Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) director Senior Superintendent Remus Zacharias Canieso. Among others, they were given a checklist of documents that must be submitted before May 31 for the review.
“This is a responsibility that you need to do and pass. We want all the barangays in Iloilo City drug-cleared. Let us help each other,” Mabilog told the barangay captains
The evaluation will start next month.
On July 11, those barangays that would be evaluated as drug-cleared will be given certificates by the Oversight Committee.
The city government’s Task Force on Anti-Drug Abuse and Education has been reaching out to people in the barangays to raise public awareness on the ill-effects of illegal drugs to health and community.
It initially targeted 17 barangays for anti-drug symposiums including four in City Proper; three in La Paz; two each in Molo, Mandurriao, Arevalo, and Jaro; and one in Lapuz.
The task force is composed of personnel from City Social Welfare and Development Office, ICPO, Public Information Office of the city government, PDEA-6, and City Youth Development Office (CYDO).
“We would like to inform people about the ill-effects of illegal drugs. If you know drugs are no good, why get involved with them,” said Rey Jason Gregorio, head of CYDO.
The task force will resume their symposia in schools in July.
In declaring an area drug-free, PDEA and the Philippine National Police consider the following factors:
* non-availability of illegal drugs
* absence of illegal drug transshipment activity
* absence of clandestine illegal drug laboratory
* absence of clandestine illegal drug warehouse
* absence of clandestine illegal chemical warehouse
* absence of marijuana cultivation site
* absence of drug den
* absence of drug pushers
* absence of drug users/dependents
* absence of protectors/coddlers and financiers./PN
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