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Sunday, February 26, 2017
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DUMAGUETE City – At least 24 barangays in Negros Oriental have already been declared free from illegal drugs based on the parameters provided by the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB).
The declaration was made by the villages’ respective municipal or city anti-illegal drugs abuse councils, according to Senior Superintendent Henry Biñas, acting director of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office (NORPP).
A barangay is considered drug-free once it has been established that there are no more drug personalities, whether users or pushers, in that village.
The police in Negros Oriental are targeting to have about 50 barangays in the province declared drug-free, said Biñas.
The names of the barangays now deemed drug-free were, however, not made available as of this writing. Biñas said his office was still collating data gathered from various police stations.
He also said this activity does not in any way contradict the suspension of anti-illegal drugs operations by the Philippine National Police as ordered by President Rodrigo Duterte.
There is no police operation such as buy-bust or the service of search warrants involved here because this is a program of local officials, especially at the barangay level, said Biñas.
Some barangays were previously affected by the drug problem but are now determined to be 100 percent free from it, according to Biñas.
He said he has pushed his police chiefs to assist the barangay captains in the compliance of requirements as stipulated in the DDB so that these areas can now be categorized as drug-free.
Biñas said their mandate now is to ensure the reduction of the so-called “focus crimes” or index crimes that would include murder, homicide, theft, robbery and physical injuries, to name a few.
This new instruction came following the suspension of the PNP’s anti-illegal drugs operations, with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency now taking the lead as embodied in their mandate, he said.
Binas said they are to ensure that these “focus crimes” are reduced because this is a “barometer” used to determine the peace and order status of an area.
A low percentage of “focus crimes” in a particular area would give the public a feeling of safety and security knowing that it is peaceful and orderly there, he said. (PNA)
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