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Police steps up crackdown vs illegal drugs in Ilocos region

CAMP BGEN OSCAR M FLORENDO--The police force of Ilocos Region will not only be busy serving and protecting thousands of Filipino people during the election period, but will also be busy running after illegal drugs and drug groups.  

This, after Police Regional Office 1 formally opened a seminar on Anti-Illegal Drugs Operations and Investigation on October 14, 2013. 

Fifty police officers composed of 11 commissioned officers and 39 Police non-commissioned officers designated as investigators of the local police stations of the four provinces of Region 1 participated in the seminar training conducted by personnel of the Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operation Task Force (AIDSOTF). The said task force is led by P/Chief Inspector Roque Merdegia Jr., chief of legal and investigation division based in Camp Crame. 

Police Sr. Supt. Alexander A. Pumecha, PRO1 Deputy Regional Director for Operations who served as the guest of honor and speaker, encouraged the participants to take the seminar seriously in order to intensify the crackdown against illegal drugs not only in Region 1 but also nationwide.  

“We must continue to hit hard against illegal drugs, especially those personalities or groups behind the manufacture, cultivation and trafficking of illegal drugs.  Let us realize our dream of a drug-free region, and never let this one end up only as a dream,” Pumecha said.  

“Region 1 is near the mountains of Cordillera where our borders have become the main cite for marijuana plantation.  Strategically, because it is very hard to reach and very hard to gain access of patrolling, so we must always be on alert against these lawless elements that enormously profit from shattering the future of our people who becomes indulged with it,” he added.    

The deputy director also cited his experiences when he was still assigned in Cordillera and as provincial police director of Abra where there were a lot of major accomplishments against illegal drugs.


Among the recent major accomplishment of the local police include the marijuana eradication on October 3, 2013 in Sugpon, Ilocos Sur led by the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group (PAIDSOTG) that yielded around P5 million worth of full grown marijuana. Likewise, shabu pushers and users were also apprehended via separate buy-bust operations also in the previous month in San Fernando City, Bauang, and Agoo in La Union, Candon City in Ilocos Sur, and the towns of Villasis, and Rosales in Pangasinan, among others.

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