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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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ILOILO – A total of 256 police officers completed a three-day training that equipped them with the skills and knowledge necessary in the campaign against drug trafficking.
These officers came from 42 municipal police stations and the component city of Passi, according to Senior Superintendent Marlon Tayaba, director of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO).
They went through a “community vetting” process to further gauge their fitness, Tayaba revealed.
The training covered, among others, human rights, evidence handling and proper filing of criminal charges.
Tayaba said they were also reoriented on Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
President Rodrigo Duterte recently signed Memorandum Order No.17 directing the Philippine National Police and other law enforcement agencies to resume providing active support to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), the lead agency in the drive against illegal drugs.
In Iloilo City, the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) also involved the community in choosing police personnel who would carry out antidrug operations.
Senior Superintendent Henry Biñas, city police director, acknowledged credibility issues in the police force, thus a new strategy was devised in the screening process of policemen who would be tapped in the antidrug campaign.
The community vetting involved a survey asking the public who among policemen had questionable credibility.
Of the estimated 50 members of the now defunct City Drug Enforcement Unit from the five stations in the city, 42 passed the screening.
“Everybody, even me, was subjected to validation,” said Biñas.
The 42 city policemen completed their training over the weekend.
In October, amid growing public criticism on his bloody drug war, President Duterte directed the police, National Bureau of Investigation, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Bureau of Customs and all other agencies or ad hoc antidrug task forces to stop conducting anti-illegal drug operations and leave the job to PDEA. (With a report from the Philippine News Agency/PN)
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