ILOILO – Today, the component city of Passi would be formally declared as “drug-cleared.”
The city met all the parameters for such status set by the Dangerous Drugs Board, said Mayor Stephen Palmares.
The regional oversight committee on the campaign against illegal drugs would make the formal declaration.
The committee is composed of the Department of Health, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Philippine National Police, and Department of Interior and Local Government.
Section 6 of Dangerous Drugs Board Regulation No. 3, Series of 2017 set the following parameters:
* no available illegal drugs
* no drug transit / transshipment activity
* no clandestine drug laboratory, drug warehouse, clandestine chemical warehouse or marijuana cultivation site
* no drug den; and
* no drug pusher, user, protector or financier
“Gin-trabaho naton ang mga persons who used drugs in our barangays. Ginpa-undergo community-based rehabilitation in four to six weeks,” said Palmares.
Making Passi City drug-free was on top of his agenda when he became the mayor, said Palmares.
Passi is a 4th class city. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 80,544 people in 51 barangays.
Considered to be one of the oldest Spanish settlements in Iloilo (it was organized as a pueblo or community settlement of natives in 1766, Passi became a component city of Iloilo in 1998./PN
