{"id":87436,"date":"2017-02-01T04:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87436"},"modified":"2017-02-01T04:55:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:55:38","slug":"anti-drug-war-operations-continue-under-pdea-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/01\/anti-drug-war-operations-continue-under-pdea-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-drug war operations continue under PDEA\u2014Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anti-drug war operations continue under PDEA\u2014Palace (Photo by Presidential Communications Group (http:\/\/pcoo.gov.ph\/) [CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MANILA\u2014While anti-illegal drug campaign Oplan Tokhang has been stopped temporarily, war on drugs will continue under supervision of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA, a Palace clarified said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The impression is that it stopped, no. What happens is the local police, the PNP, has been asked to desist from engaging in anti-drug operations. But the operations will continue under the PDEA,\u201d Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said in a media briefing.<\/p>\n

When asked if undermanned PDEA alone can carry out fight against illegal drugs, Abella said PDEA \u201cmaybe supplemented\u201d by another project that was discussed in a joint PNP and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) command conference last Sunday.<\/p>\n

Upon the directive of President Duterte, the PNP has temporarily stopped all PNP anti-drug-related operations.<\/p>\n

President Duterte has also ordered the abolition of the police anti-drug units to allow the cleansing and eradication of scalawags and criminals within the PNP.<\/p>\n

The abolition of all the PNP anti-drug units was triggered by series of drug-related cases involving policemen, including those who abducted and killed Korean executive Jee Ick Joo inside the PNP\u2019s headquarters at Camp Crame.<\/p>\n

Abella, meanwhile, confirmed that President Duterte is amenable to a proposal to revive the Philippine Constabulary, one of the major service commands of the AFP during the time of former President Ferdinand Marcos.<\/p>\n

He said the PC revival was mentioned again during the recent joint PNP-AFP command conference.<\/p>\n

“The Philippine Constabulary would be composed of gentlemen from the Armed Forces and from the military, which would be different from the PNP,” Abella said.<\/p>\n

“So he\u2019s basically saying that they would be in a sense a more trustworthy organization being seen that they have not been…They are not civilian run like the PNP but run by authority under the Armed Forces,” he added.<\/p>\n

Abella said the job of the PC would be a more national in scope while the PNP would concentrate at the local level.<\/p>\n

He said the PC could supplement PDEA in pursuing the government\u2019s strong war against drug menace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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