MACARTHUR, Leyte, Jan. 12 -- The town’s police chief here has expressed
concern over resurgence of illegal drugs after the Philippine National Police
(PNP) stepped out as lead in the crackdown last October.
Senior Inspector Ariel
Salarda is alarmed that drug personalities in their area who yielded to
authorities are slowly going back to drug use and drug selling.
Salarda noted the latest
report of a drug surrenderer caught in a buy-bust operation at a local cockpit
here last week.
Antonio Robin, 32, of Danao
village here sold a plastic sachet containing suspected shabu worth PHP500 to
an undercover agent, leading to his arrest.
Upon arrest, two sachets
containing the same suspected illegal substance were confiscated from his
possession. Other amounts found in his wallet were turned over by the police to
his wife.
“Robin has been under close
surveillance by police authorities in December after the suspect came back from
a hiatus in Manila for a number of months,” Salarda said Friday.
The PNP suspects Robin gets
his drug supply from Manila.
“Carrying the illegal drugs
by land is easier with less strict inspections in terminals and ports,” he
said.
Salarda vowed to step up
the campaign again as police authorities have been given the green light to
rejoin the anti-illegal drug campaign.
In December, President
Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the PNP, through a memorandum, to return to the
government’s war on illegal drugs but in a supporting role, with the PDEA
keeping the overall lead in the campaign. (ACR/PNA)
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