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PNP-DEG marks 5th founding year amid succesful war on drugs

June 28, 2022 Alfred P. Dalizon 1113 views

PNPTHE Philippine National Police Drug Enforcement Group (PNP-DEG) headed by Brigadier General Randy Q. Peralta marks its 5th founding anniversary today, Wednesday, amid its commitment to continue a more aggressive campaign versus illegal drug trafficking and abuse under the new Marcos administration.

PNP Officer-in-Charge, Lieutenant Gen. Vicente D. Danao Jr. will be leading the anniversary celebration of the force’s premier anti-narcotics unit which will fete its outstanding personnel and units this afternoon under their theme “Pulis at Mamamayan Magtulungan, Iligal na Droga Labanan, Tungo sa Maunlad na Pamayanan.’

The PNP and PNP-DEG leaderships have also expressed their full support to President Bongbong Marcos Jr.’s strong commitment to continue the battle against drugs within the framework of the law and with full respect for human rights.

“We are now focusing our sight on the rehabilitation and socio-economic development aspect thru the help of other government and law enforcement agencies,” Brig. Gen. Peralta said.

To receive plaques for their outstanding accomplishments are the PNP-DEG Intelligence and Foreign Liaison Division, the DEG Special Operations Unit-National Capital Region and the DEG SOU Cordillera.

The individual awardees are Colonel Chery Lou B. Donato as Best Senior Police Commissioned Officer for Administration; Lieutenant Col. Arnulfo G. Ibañez as Best Senior PCO for Operations; Lt. Gina M. Anog as Best Junior PCO for Administration; Captain Hazel S. Mabilin as Best Junior PCO for Operations;

Police Chief Master Sergeant Ninita B. Amanon as Best Senior Police Non-commissioned Officer for Administration; Police Master Sgt. Rodolfo B. Mayo Jr. as Best Senior PNCO for Operations; SSgt. Sarrah Jane D. Apostol as Best Junior PNCO for Administration; Corporal Jayson H. San Pascual as Best Junior PNCO for Operations;

Laarne C. Rivera as Best Non-Uniformed Personnel (Supervisory Level); Caesar L. Tingson as Best NUP (Non-Supervisory Level); Lt. Reynald Paul T. Teves (Best PCO for Demand Reduction); and Cpl. Vanessa L. Venzon (Best PNCO for Demand Reduction).

Special awardees are Lt. Col. Darwin Clark B. Paz, Captain Archie Carlyle S. Tangbawan, Lt. Sherwin Solomon B. Bataller III, Patrolman Ronevil P. Batal, the Cordillera Regional Drug Enforcement Unit, the Rizal Provincial DEU, the Quezon City Police District DEU, the Cebu City DEU, the Caloocan City Police Station 1 and the Police Regional Office 4-B.

Other awardees are Brig. Gen. Ritchie Medardo A. Posadas of the PNP EOD/K-9 Group, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chair, Director General Wilkins M. Villanueva, Anti-Money Laundering Council head Mel Georgie B. Racela, Bureau of Corrections head Gerald Q. Bantag, NAIA Customs Collector Carmelita M. Talusan, DENR-NCR’s Maria Matilda A. Gaddi and the PNP-DEG Advisory Group headed by Dr. Cho Chiong Tan.

The late Pat. Domino R. Miñano who was killed by armed drug dealers in Mandaluyong City last April 28 will be getting a posthumous award too.

Lt. Gen. Danao has congratulated the PNP-DEG for continuing a much aggressive war on drugs since last February. Brig. Gen. Peralta was installed as the new PNP-DEG director last February vice Brig. Gen. Remus B. Medina, his classmate from PNP Academy Class 1993 who spearheaded major DEG accomplishments prior to his designation as QCPD rector.

From February 10, 2022 to present, the PNP-DEG under Brig. Gen. Peralta has accounted for more than P952 million worth of shabu and other illegal drugs as a result of 374 anti-narcotics operations it conducted.

Those operations led in the recovery of over 120 kilograms of shabu, the uprooting and destruction of more than 530,000 pieces of fully-grown marijuana plants and seedlings and the seizure of nearly 18 kilos of dried cannabis leaves and its high derivative called Kush as well as 460 Mogadon tablets.

Also accounted for by PNP-DEG operatives during the period were 418 known drug traffickers, five of them killed in gunbattles with DEG officers during the conduct of buy-bust operations and 11 illegal firearms.

When it comes to demand reduction, the PNP-DEG now boast of 126 Resistance Education Against Drugs for the Youth or R.E.A.D.Y. officers who have already conducted three Project R.E.A.D.Y. seminars and 181 drug awareness lectures which benefited nearly 17,000 participants since last February.

Apart from being the lead unit in the PNP’s drug supply reduction program, the PNP-DEG is also vastly involved in a massive drug demand reduction program across the country.

“We are on a mission to ensure that former drug patients who have undergone rehabilitation thru the help of the government will really turn out to be productive citizens of the country and will be the role models of what a truly reformed former drug abuser is,” Peralta told the Journal Group.

Danao said that under the Marcos administration, he wants his men to continue a more aggressive campaign versus illegal drug trafficking and abuse focusing on the drug supply and drug reduction programs of the force.

Records showed that over 11.9 tons of shabu worth P77.01 billion have been seized by Duterte government agents led by those from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the PNP from July 1, 2016 to last May 31.

The latest RealNumbersPH said that during the period, authorities conducted 239,218 anti-illegal drug operations which led in the arrest of 345,216 suspects. A total of 6,252 armed suspects also died during those anti-drug operations, majority of them in shootouts with undercover officers.

Under Peralta, the PNP-DEG since last February has conducted a string of major anti-narcotics operations including a buy-bust operation along the Batasan-San Mateo Road in Batasan Hills, Quezon City last February 27 which led in the seizure of two kilos of shabu worth P13.6 million; a sting in Bgy. Maasin in Zamboanga City last Feb. 25 which netted four kilos of the so-called ‘poor man’s cocaine’ valued at P27.2 million;

An interdiction operation in Mindanao Avenue, Q.C. last March 23 which resulted in the confiscation of 50 kilograms of shabu worth P340 million; and a buy-bust operation in Bacoor City in Cavite last April 25 which led in the recovery of 200 kilos of the same prohibited drugs valued at P136 million;

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