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MANILA – The prevailing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has not slowed down the Philippine National Police (PNP) as it conducted 3,413 anti-illegal drug operations in the last 26 days.
In a press briefing in Camp Crame on Monday, PNP chief Gen. Camilo Pancratius Cascolan, said a total of 4,354 drug offenders were also arrested from Sept. 2 to 27.
He said the operations have resulted in the confiscation of 2.2 kilograms of shabu and 13.7 kg of marijuana “with a combined value of PHP151.5 million in the street market”.
“What is more important is that these illegal drugs could have led to larger problems for the community had we not taken it off the streets,” he added.
Cascolan said the Police Regional Office-Cordillera destroyed three marijuana farms with an estimated value of PHP3.84 million in Barangay Bugnay in Tinglayan, Kalinga.
He said the PNP’s anti-illegal drugs campaign plan Double Barrel remains active and operational to address the two-pronged strategy of supply reduction and demand reduction.
“Oplan Tokhang continues to be implemented in support of both supply and demand reduction efforts as a community-based persuasive approach, or Lower Barrel approach that seeks social reintegration of reformed drug offenders back into mainstream society through community intervention,” he said. (PNA)
