{"id":129554,"date":"2017-11-08T04:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=129554"},"modified":"2017-11-08T04:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T09:15:22","slug":"senator-eyes-mega-drug-rehab-center-as-training-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/08\/senator-eyes-mega-drug-rehab-center-as-training-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator eyes mega drug rehab center as training academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_97248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97248\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tito_Sotto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97248\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tito_Sotto.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III  (Photo by Public Relation and Information Bureau [Public domain],)\" width=\"440\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tito_Sotto.jpg 440w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tito_Sotto-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III (Photo by Public Relation and Information Bureau [Public domain],)<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said the PHP185 billion mega-drug rehabilitation facility in Nueva Ecija can still be put to \u201coptimum use\u201d and become a police training academy.<\/p>\n<p>Sotto made this remark after former Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) Chairman Dionisio Santiago said that construction o the drug rehab facility is \u201cimpractical\u201d and had been a \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte asked Santiago to resign after making the comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn line with the issue regarding the mega drug rehab center, I still believe that the facility can be put to optimum use,\u201d Sotto said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sotto pointed out that aside from being just a drug rehab facility, it can also be utilized as the country\u2019s mega drug enforcement academy.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the drug rehab facility can be an \u201cextension\u201d of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Academy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPDEA can oversee it, as it can be made as an extension of the present PDEA academy. With that size, we could produce a thousand agents per batch,\u201d Sotto said.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Sotto said that alongside PDEA, other agencies such as the Bureau of Customs, Bureau of Immigration, Philippine National Police, and National Bureau of Investigation can avail of the drug interdiction training program.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the extension of the PDEA Academy can be like the international law enforcement academy (ILE) in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInfrastructure development on land, especially as a gift, is always acknowledged, an Asian cultural trait,\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n<p>Sotto also suggested that President Rodrigo Duterte may also seek the assistance of guest instructors from China\u2019s police academy, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Australian police academy and others to make it a \u201cworld-class\u201d training facility.\u00a0<strong><em>(PNA)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said the PHP185 billion mega-drug rehabilitation facility in Nueva Ecija &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[31904,31905,18653],"class_list":["post-129554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-mega-drug-rehab-center","tag-police-training-academy","tag-senate-majority-leader-vicente-sotto-iii","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}