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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Tuesday. September 12, 2017
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ILOILO City – The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) is now accepting enrollees (drug dependents) who want to avail themselves of free rehabilitation.
This will be the 10th batch of PRO-6’s drug rehabilitation program, said Superintendent Gilbert Gorero, regional police spokesperson.
“We encourage drug dependents to avail themselves of our free program. This is an opportunity for them to change their lives for the better. We want to help them,” said Gorero.
For this batch, PRO-6 aims to serve around 90 clients from this city.
PRO-6’s drug rehabilitation program has so far served 552 clients since last year. Of these, 96 have further availed themselves of training and schooling under the Department of Social Welfare and Development with the goal of landing better jobs, said Gorero.
“We will not stop helping drug personalities willing to change for the better through our program,” he stressed.
When it started last year, the program initially served only drug surrenderers from six villages near the PRO-6 – Concepcion, Rizal Ibarra, Zamora, Duran, Sto. Rosario, and Dela Rama.
The PRO-6 revealed last week there had been a 215 percent increase in the number of drug surrenderers in Western Visayas after the launching of “Tokhang Reboot” on Aug. 15.
“Tokhang Reboot” is a supplemental plan to reinforce the terms and provisions of the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) antidrug campaign Oplan Double Barrel.
In just 22 days from Aug. 15 to Sept. 4, the PRO-6 recorded 123 surrenderers, way higher than the 39 monthly average numbers of surrenders from March 1 to Aug. 15 this year.
“Under Tokhang Reboot, a lot of drug personalities surrendered and expressed willingness to change their lives by joining our recovery and wellness programs,” said Chief Superintendent Cesar Hawthorne Binag, regional police director.
Tokhang Reboot sets calculated measures in the conduct of antidrug operations and aims also to earn for the police the public’s trust and confidence.
It has six phases. These are the following:
- collection and validation of information – The collection of information expands to houses, jails, workplaces, schools and other places where drug trade may thrive.
- coordination – covers concerned government agencies and the private sector
- house visitation – shall be done jointly or individually by representatives from the PNP, Department of Interior and Local Government, local antidrug council, church, private sector (youth, business, etc.)
- processing and documentation – surrenders fill out police forms, take oath to stop illegal drug activities, undergo interview
- monitoring and evaluation – police will monitor drug suspects’ progress; appropriate charges will be filed to those who continue their illegal drug activities
- reintegration – among others, the following must be hurdled: drug testing; drug rehabilitation initiated by the Department of Health; no offense committed during probationary period; moral and spiritual intervention / counseling; training with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority./PN
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