As a result of the unrelenting campaign for the country’s peace and order and war against illegal drugs, the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) was able to conduct series of search and seizure operations against illegal drugs this year.
“We are persistent in our endeavor to lessen if not totally eradicate illegal gambling, illegal possession of firearms, and most particularly prohibited drugs in Davao City,” said DCPO Deputy Director for Operations Ireneo Caburnay.
Based on DCPO’s records from January to November this year, they were able to conduct 746 positive police operations wherein 1,053 personalities were arrested.
The DCPO records added that a total of 1,222 cases were already filed in courts during the same period.
Caburnay said they were able to seize a total of 10,258 grams of marijuana and 4,151 grams of shabu worth more than P17 million (street price) in different police operations conducted in the city.
It can be recalled that he count of drug suspects killed and arrested in the government’s bloody drug war went back to zero as the Philippine National Police (PNP) launched the Oplan Double Barrel Alpha last October.
Carbunay added that the police officers in Davao City were already informed on what to do on the campaign against illegal drugs because the Oplan Tokhang was initiated in Davao when the PNP Director General Ronald dela Rosa was still the director of the Davao City Police Office from 2011 to 2013.
In Oplan Tokhang, police operatives will visit the house of those suspected drug pushers and persuade them to stop their trade in a bid to eradicate the illegal drug problem.
“We would vigorously support President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign by continuing its operations against illegal drugs as it would affect the future generation,” Carbunay said.
“This is one of the biggest problems in the country that also create problems on peace and order and ruin lives of people including its future,” he added.
In conclusion, the provincial director called on everybody to cooperate and help in the campaign against illegal drugs by giving information that would expedite the solution of the problem for the welfare of the populace.
