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BY RUBY P.SILUBRICO
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Friday, February 23, 2018
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ILOILO City – Ten jails in Iloilo and Guimaras provinces yielded no illegal drugs during unannounced inspections early this month.
No jail personnel or inmates randomly chosen also tested positive for illegal drugs.
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) ordered the inspections and asked the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to conduct the drug tests.
The 10 jails received certification from PDEA as drug-free facilities for the first quarter of 2018, said Superintendent Gilbert Peremne, BJMP deputy regional director for administration.
The jails are in Passi City, the Iloilo towns of Dumangas, Barotac Viejo and Pototan (Iloilo District Jail in Barangay Nanga and municipal jail); in Barangay Ungka, Jaro district; Jordan district jail and Buenavista municipal jail in Guimaras.
“This is only for the first quarter of the year. We have a series of jail inspections and drug tests until the end of the year,” said Peremne.
Before this year is over, all prison facilities in Western Visayas should have been certified as drug-free, according to the BJMP. PDEA will issue a certification once a jail has met the parameters.
“A lot of things must be done to get the certification. This is not going to be easy. This will take a series of jail cleansing,” said Peremne.
No illegal drugs must be recovered in a jail during unannounced inspections of PDEA and “allied forces from the uniformed service” such as the Philippine National Police, he stressed.
The jails’ staff must also be consistently active in their respective community’s antidrug campaigns, Peremne added.
The jail wardens and guards must undergo and pass PDEA-facilitated drug tests every three months, too./PN
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