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Manila, Philippines – Sometime in October, the Philippine
Drug Enforcement Agency announced that at least 3, 500 barangays or 8.4 percent
of the total number of villages in the country are declared drug-free.
On the first week of December, PDEA reported that there are
now 4,747 out of 42, 036 barangays in the Philippines have been announced as
drug-free.
PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino have disclosed the information
through #RealNumbers monthly update.
“These barangays have reached drug-cleared status after
issuance of a certification by members of the Oversight Committee on Barangay
Drug-Clearing Program,” Aquino said.
The declaration was made after the Oversite Committee
validated the absence of drugs, shabu laboratories, drug dens, users and
pushers as well as other forms of illegal drugs in the area.
“Before declaring that a barangay is free from illegal drug
activities, the committee must convene and validate the non-availability of
drug supply in the area and the absence of drug transit activity, clandestine
drug laboratory and chemical warehouse, marijuana cultivation site, drug den,
drug pusher, and user,” Dir. Gen. Aquino added.
There are three basic patterns of how a barangay is affected
of drugs; slightly affected, moderately affected, and seriously affected.
A barangay is considered
slightly affected if there is a reported presence of user(s) are drug personality
in barangays; moderately affected if there is a reported presence of user(s)
and pusher(s) are drug personality of a barangay; while the seriously affected
are those barangays with drug laboratory, den, dive or resort, marijuana
plantation in the community.
PDEA also reported that 118,287 individuals involved in
illegal drugs were arrested from July 2016 to November 2017.
Among the said figures 435 were government workers– 185 of them are elected
officials, 42 uniformed personnel, and 208 government employees.
Source: PNA
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