Zamboanga del Sur town implements rehab, livelihood programs for drug surrenderees

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, July 21 (PNA) -– The local government of the nearby town of Dumalinao has designed programs to rehabilitate and provide livelihood assistance to “drug personalities” who surrendered to the government authorities.

The initial batch of drug personality-surrenderees consist of 375 individuals. The police authorities refer drug personalities to either pushers or users.

Dumalinao Mayor Junaflor Cerilles told the Philippines News Agency that most of the drug personalities who surrendered are farmers.

Cerilles said they will undergo workshop as part of their rehabilitation process before they will be employed to render community service.

The community service included tree and mangrove planting, garbage collection and clean-up activities.

Cerilles said those aged 35 and below will be absorbed under her program intended for the students dubbed as “Go Greem Dumalinao.”

She said the program is her immediate and outright response to provide assistance to the drug surrenderees to enable them to start a new life.

Chief Insp. Lee Eric Humpa, Dumalinao police chief, said they will have to undergo rehabilitation for six months before they would be accommodated into the livelihood program.

Humpa warned the drug personalities that legal actions will be taken against them if they will not support efforts to resolving the problems on the proliferation of prohibited drugs in the municipality of Dumalinao. (PNA)
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5,070 ‘drug personalities’ surrender in Zambo Sur

PNP listing some Illegal drugs

Personalities who were surrendered

recently at Pagadian City PNP Station

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, July 12 (PNA) -– A total of 5,070 “drug personalities” have voluntarily surrendered since the authorities have launched Operations Plan Tokhang (Oplan Tokhang) in this province.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) launched the Oplan Tokhang campaign to persuade suspected drug pushers and users to mend their ways or face the full force of the law.

The campaign is pursuant to the directive of President Rodrigo Duterte for a relentless campaign against the trade and use of prohibited drugs.

Senior Supt. Michael Nicolas, provincial police director, on Tuesday told the Philippines News Agency that 4,772 of the 5,070 drug personalities who surrendered are users while the remaining 298 are pushers.

Nicolas said that seven of the 298 pushers and 109 of the 4,772 users in the drug watch list of his office.

He said that 303 of the 5,070 surrenderees drug personalities are minors while nine of them are females.

He said the surrenderees, who are from the different parts of this province, were turned over to their respective local government units to undergo rehabilitation following assessment and profiling.

This province comprises of one component city and 26 municipalities organized into two congressional districts and further subdivided into 681 barangays.

Meanwhile, the 27 chiefs of police and other key police provincial officials have completed a two-day seminar on Tuesday conducted by the Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) intelligence division headed by Senior Supt. Neil Alinsangan.

PNP Region 9 intellegence Division(R2) Chief

Police Senior Supt. Neil Alinsañgan interview

by CNN Correspondent Jong Cadion at Camp. Abelon

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COP and key officials on siminar

Photo by Ferdinand Libor Jr.

The seminar’s topic are procedures and programs on how to handle the case of drug personalities who voluntarily surrendered to the authorities. (PNA)

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Zambo Sur town employees, policemen ordered to undergo drug test

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, July 6 (PNA) –- Local government officials to include the barangay officials as well as police personnel in the nearby town of Dumingag have been ordered to undergo drug test.

The order to undergo drug test issued by newly-elected Dumingag Mayor Mark Pacalioga was the first directive of the official upon his assumption of office.

Pacalioga said the move is in support to the campaign of President Rodrigo Duterte against the proliferation of prohibited drugs.

Butch Cabilan, Dumingag municipal administrator, and the members of the municipal council have immediately submitted themselves to drug test just after the issuance of the order.

Cabilan said the move showed they fully support the anti-drug campaign of the town mayor.

Pacalioga and his father Vice Mayor Nacianceno Pacalioga and the entire police force of Dumingag are scheduled to undergo drug test next week.

It will be recalled that the first two batches of “drug personalities” consisting of 20 people to surrender in this province is from the town of Dumingag.

The police authorities refer drug personalities to either pushers or users of prohibited drugs.

In related development, 110 drug personalities have voluntarily surrendered on Tuesday to police authorities in the nearby municipality of Dumalinao.

Chief Insp. Eric Humpa, Dumalinao police chief, said five of the 110 are included in the drug watch list of his office. (PNA)
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'Oplan Double Barrel’ leads to the surrender of 38 drug personalities in Zambo Sur; 4 arrested

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, July 2 (PNA) – Thirty-eight drug personalities have voluntarily surrendered to government authorities in the nearby towns of Dimataling and Lapuyan while four others were arrested in separate anti-drug operations in this province.

Senior Supt. Michael Nicolas, provincial police director, told the Philippines News Agency (PNA) that 19 of the 38 drug personalities who surrendered Friday afternoon were from Dimataling town while the other 19 from Lapuyan municipality.

Drug personalities refer to individuals who are either involved in the trade of prohibited drugs or purely drug users.

Nicolas said the surrender of drug personalities was made possible through massive and aggressive campaign dubbed as “Oplan Double Barrel,” launched by the police in coordination with the local government units to include the barangay officials.

Nicolas said the campaign is in line with the declaration of war by President Rodrigo Duterte against the proliferation of drugs in the country.

Under the campaign, Nicolas said the surrenderees will have to undergo certain procedures and their willingness to stop the illegal activities as well as to support the war against prohibited drugs.

He said they will relentlessly pursue those drug personalities who would continue their illicit activities.

Meanwhile, he identified those arrested in the anti-drugs campaign as Mark Angelou Ferrer, 21; Ricardo Same, 38; Faisal Cabugatan Khong alias Fai, 34; and, Hilda Ampak, 43.

He said Ferrer and Same were arrested in a buy-bust operation Friday afternoon in Purok 4, Barangay Upper Tiparak, Tambulig town.

He said Khong and Ampak were arrested in a separate buy-bust operation on the same day in Purok Sunshine, Barangay Santiago, this city.

The arresting team confiscated from the suspects’ possession prohibited drugs and paraphernalia.

Nicolas said the suspects were detained while appropriate charges are set to be filed against them. (PNA)
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