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BY RUBY SILUBRICO
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Sunday, November 19, 2017
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ILOILO City – Eighty-nine drug dependents in this city have completed the community-based rehabilitation program of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6).
Seventy-three males and 16 females who had undergone the three-month intervention vowed to stay away from prohibited substances, according to Superintendent Gilbert Gorero, PRO-6 spokesperson.
Composing the 11th batch of program beneficiaries, the 89 were given “diplomas” during “graduation” rites on Friday.
So far, the PRO-6’s community-based rehabilitation program has produced 737 graduates.
Enrollment for the 12th batch starts tomorrow, Gorero said.
According to Gorero, this is the PRO-6’s contribution to the government’s antidrug campaign now that they are no longer authorized to conduct arrests and raids.
In October, President Rodrigo Duterte declared that only the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is authorized to swoop down on drug suspects and barred all other law enforcement agencies and units from doing the same.
“We are happy that we are able to help drug dependents through this rehabilitation program,” said Gorero.
Some of those who have completed the program have finally been able to land jobs, he said.
“They were ‘cleared’ in their medical exams,” Gorero said. “We hope all our graduates could find decent employment.”/PN
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