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Friday, November 22, 2019

Burning of Drug and Non-drug Evidences


Highlight of the "Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Week " is the Burning of the Drug and Non-drug Evidences. Drug and Non-drug Evidences were gathered from various Provinces of Region XI (Davao City, Compostela Valley, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur and Davao Oriental). A total of 2.05 kilograms of Shabu worth Php 24, 624, 697 and 5.33 kilograms of Marijuana worth Php 266, 485.14 were burnt to ashes that day.

Monday, October 16, 2017

88 Percent of Filipinos ...

... support war on drugs —Pulse Asia


More than eight in 10 Filipinos support the government's war on drugs, but a majority believe alleged extrajudicial killings (EJKs) are taking place in the course of its implementation.
In the third quarter survey conducted on September 24 to 30, Pulse Asia said 88 percent of Filipinos support the war on drugs while only two percent oppose the campaign. Nine percent said they may or may not support it.


Ninety-four percent of respondents in Mindanao said they are backing President Rodrigo Duterte's key agenda, followed by Luzon (88 percent), Visayas (85 percent), and the National Capital Region (84 percent).
The campaign enjoys an 89 percent support among Class D, and 88 percent among Class E. With regard to Class ABC, 80 percent support the anti-illegal drugs campain.
However, 73 percent of Pulse's 1,200 respondents aged 18 and above said they believe EJKs are happening in the war on drugs, up by six percentage points compared to the survey results last June.


Most Filipinos who suspect the presence of EJKs were located in NCR (78 percent) and Luzon (75 percent). The awareness rate in Visayas and Mindanao were at 68 percent and 67 percent, respectively.
A majority of respondents in Classes ABC, or 77 percent, said EJKs are present in the war on drugs, followed by Class D at 72 percent, and Class E at 70 percent.
Twenty percent said they do not believe in EJKs while only seven percent refused to answer.
The war on drugs registered a 100 percent awareness nationwide.
Sought for comment, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II recalled telling some members of the European Union, the American press and some ambassadors when he met them in Washington D.C. last April that the “Filipinos overwhelmingly support the war on drugs.”
“That what they [EU, US representatives]  read in their newspapers are disinformation, misinformation and outright lies all calculated to destabilize the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte,” he said.
Asked if the Filipinos’ continued support for the campaign against illegal drugs can be seen as a slap in the face to its critics, Aguirre said: “Definitely.”
Pulse Asia conducted the survey using face-to-face interviews with an error margin of ± 3 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. For the geographic areas (Metro Manila, rest of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao), subnational estimates have a ± 6% error margin at the 95 percent confidence level.
Among the key developments that were in the headlines during the survey period were the filing of murder charges against policemen allegedly involved in the killing of Karl Angelo Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman.
The statements of Duterte and Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa denying that killing drug suspects were included in its national policy were also issued at the time the survey was taken. — with Virgil Lopez/KG/RSJ, GMA News

Friday, November 25, 2016

Cayetano: People Support PNP's Efforts to Rid Country of Drugs and Contain Criminality

Cayetano: People support PNP’s efforts to rid country of drugs and contain criminality


Senator Alan Peter Cayetano expressed confidence that the nation supports PNP Chief Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa and the PNP leadership in their efforts to reform the country’s police force, and to make it more effective in the war against drugs and criminality. 

"Do not despair, the people are critical but are behind you," Cayetano told Dela Rosa.

Cayetano said while he has asked Congress to act and improve the salary and benefits of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Congress has been and should be critical of the scalawags in the organization. 

“Nonetheless, it is still Congress’ duty to at least provide uniformed personnel with an amount that covers the cost of living, and to provide orphaned families of those killed or wounded in action with enough to make ends meet and send dependents to good schools,” he said.

Cayetano also urged the citizenry to continue to support the efforts of the PNP leadership to cleanse its ranks of rogue policemen and scalawags by helping identify the corrupt officers involved in criminal activities, particularly in the illegal drug trade. 

“We trust in the leadership of the PNP and we will do all to support his efforts and initiatives to reform the organization with the same intensity as Senator Panfilo Lacson did when he was Chief PNP,” Cayetano said. 

He lamented that there are still those who are part of the organization who continue to use their uniform for criminal activities, protecting drug operations and illegal gambling. 

“DG Dela Rosa’s efforts  to cleanse the ranks of PNP belie the administration’s critics that the government tolerates extrajudicial killings and corruption,” he added. 

The senator said he believes the government will not rest until the PNP has been effectively reformed, to help the President win in his fight to suppress crime and illegal drugs, problems that continue to plague our nation.#


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Senator Alan Peter Cayetano consoles PNP Chief Director General Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa, as he expressed his confidence that the people continue to trust and support the PNP leadership's ability to reform the police force and to make it more effective in the government's campaign against crime and illegal drugs.

Saturday, October 8, 2016

QC Police Department has Krista Miller's Drug Clients' List

QCPD has Krista Miller’s drug clients’ list, checks her link to Bilibid drugs

By: Maricar Brizuela / @mbrizuelaINQ
 / 12:44 AM October 04, 2016
Krista Miller poses for her mugshot (Photo from the Quezon City Police District)
Krista Miller poses for her mugshot (Photo from the Quezon City Police District)
MANILA — The Quezon City Police District is now investigating just how big the drug network actress Krista Miller has worked for and in, according to the QCPD chief, Senior Supt. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar.
The actress known for her roles in the sex-themed films “Hukluban” and “Kabaro” was embroiled in a controversy in 2014 when she was caught on camera visiting convicted drug lord Ricardo Camata in a hospital. She denied doing sexual favors nor delivering drugs to Camata saying she was just offering him a condominium she was selling.
Asked if Camata was indeed the source of the drugs that Miller was selling, Eleazar said police have been looking into that information.
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“We are looking into how broad her network is,” the QCPD director added. He also mentioned that Miller has given him a list of clients, including celebrities.
Miller’s arrest was a low point in her scandal-tainted life of late, which included getting dragged as a third party in the separation of celebrity couple Sunshine Cruz and Cesar Montano in 2013.
Miller was arrested in a buy-bust operation conducted by the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) on Friday night after she was identified by two arrested female models for a men’s magazine as their source of shabu.
In a press conference at Camp Karingal on Monday, the QCPD chief, Senior Supt. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, said the 26-year-old actress, whose real name is Krystalyn Engle, was nabbed during a follow-up operation in Valenzuela City on Friday night.
Operatives of the District Anti-Illegal Drugs (DAID) unit scheduled a purchase with Miller and her cohort Aaron Medina at around9:10 p.m. at the Shell Station along General Tiburcio de Leon Street near Santolan Road.
The undercover policemen were able to buy a sachet of shabu costing P3,000 from Miller and Medina. They were immediately arrested after the trade was completed.
Eleazar said the operation on Miller was carried out after the two female men’s magazine models pinpointed her as their seller of shabu.
Liaa Alelin Bolla, 24, and Jeramie Padolina, 30, were arrested in drug bust early Friday in a house located at 21 A. Luna Street, Bagumbahay in Project 4. Residents in the area reported to the police that the residence was being used as a place to sell drugs and where customers flock daily.
Liaa Alelin Bolla-drug suspect-Maricar Brizuela
Jeramie Padolina-drug suspect-Maricar Brizuela
Policemen from the QCPD Station 8 conducted a buy-bust operation and nabbed the owner of the house John Inri Barros and two other sellers Justine Del Rosario and Renato Hernandez Jr. The two models were also discovered inside the residence and the police found illegal drugs and other parahernalia from their possession.
Seized from the five suspects were seven sachets of shabu, a sachet of marijuana, aluminum foil strips and an improvised glass tube pipe.
Aside from these evidence, the police also gathered vital information from the suspects about their suppliers of shabu. Bolla and Padolina pointed at Miller while the three male suspects identified couple Ambay and Muhiddin Sandigan as their source of illegal drugs.
The husband and wife were arrested in a follow-up operation on Saturday in Brgy. Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City. They are said to be known suppliers to other sellers in Quezon City.
Miller, who was asked for a reaction on her arrest, told members of the media on Monday that she did not want to comment on her arrest.
Bolla, however, confirmed that she personally knew Miller and bought shabu from her.
Miller and the five male suspects arrested have been charged with peddling illegal drugs while the two models, Bolla and Padolina, were charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. The authorities also said Miller tested positive for drugs.  SFM

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Cayetano: Duterte's War on Drugs a War to Protect Human Rights



Office of the Senator
Alan Peter S. Cayetano
Rm. 602 GSIS Complex Senate of the Philippines Roxas Blvd Pasay City
         

PRESS RELEASE
01 September 2016


Cayetano: Duterte’s war on drugs a war to protect human rights, ensure safety & welfare of Filipinos


“Our war against illegal drugs is not a war against life, but a war to fight for the lives of all Filipinos. It is not a war against human rights, but a war to protect human rights, and to ensure the safety and welfare of the Filipino family."

 Senator Alan Peter Cayetano stressed this in his privilege speech on Wednesday (August 31) amid false reports in foreign press about human rights issues in the conduct of the administration’s intensified campaign against illegal drugs.

Contrary to claims of the Commission on Human Rights,  Cayetano said the government’s strong policies against criminality have made it possible for Filipino families to begin feeling safer, particularly since the government waged an all-out war on drugs.

The senator reiterated that President Rodrigo Duterte has not wavered in his commitment to uphold and protect the human rights of every Filipino at any time, contrary to what the President’s critics are trying to portray. 

He added the government’s unrelenting campaign against illegal drugs has actually improved the country’s peace and order situation.

“Narinig po natin sa sariling bibig ng ating Pangulo na ang human rights ay importante sa ating bansa. Pero hindi pwedeng gamitin ang human rights para hindi ituloy ang drug war,” Cayetano said. “If you listen to the President’s speeches… palagi niyang sinasabi that he will operate within the confines of the Philippine Constitution. He will respect the Bill of Rights and the rule of law,” he intoned. 

The senator pointed out that the drug menace has reached alarming levels that nothing short of bold and swift solutions are needed to end the problem.

He said criminality was already rampant under previous administrations at the rate of almost 1,000-2,000 incidents of murders and homicides every month. The only difference, he said, is that in the past, innocent citizens were  hounded and victimized by hardened criminals and drug pushers. But today, it’s the law that’s hounding the drug pushers and criminals, he noted.

“Don’t you feel safer today than six years ago? Wala pong sense of security ang Pilipino dati… Dati, ang takot ay ang tao… Ngayon, nararamdaman ng mga tao ang pagbabago... Ngayon ang kriminal na ang takot, hindi ang mamamayan.” he said.

Cayetano also denounced Duterte’s detractors’ penchant to blame the administration for all the drug-related killings in the country. He said the slack use of  “extrajudicial killings”  (EJKs) to label all suspected drug casualties puts in question the motive behind the investigation being conducted by Sen. Leila De Lima’s Committee on Justice.

“Are some people using the term EJK loosely not because they are human rights advocates… [but] to discredit the PNP and the Duterte administration?” Cayetano asked as he reiterated his call for De Lima to inhibit herself from the inquiry.

Cayetano said labeling the deaths of drug suspects as EJKs is obviously meant to create the wrong perception that the State is initiating the executions and is doing nothing to resolve the crimes. 

“The State, the executive department, legislative department, and the judiciary, are doing its best to ensure that the rule of law prevails. Even the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is part of the state and is already investigating,” the senator pointed out.

Cayetano, meanwhile, said he remains confident of President Duterte’s continuous efforts  to uphold human rights while also ensuring the safety and protection of all families.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Humiliation and Death for Boxes of "Tuyo"

Inquirer Southern Luzon
By: Maricar Cinco
COUPLES suspected of selling or using illegal drugs are paraded in Tanauan City, Batangas, as part of the city government’s campaign to shame criminals.      PHOTO COURTESY OF TANAUAN CITY GOVERNMENT
COUPLES suspected of selling or using illegal drugs are paraded in Tanauan City, Batangas, as part of the city government’s campaign to shame criminals. PHOTO COURTESY OF TANAUAN CITY GOVERNMENT
Do you want Papa to give you baon (school allowance)?” Pedro Balaba Jr. asked his children before he left their house in Tanauan City in Batangas province one night in January.
But how and where he would get the money was a question his wife, Girlie Lopez, learned not to ask.
The next morning, Balaba, 28, did not come home. Instead, his body, riddled with bullets, turned up under a footbridge a few meters from the barangay hall of Darasa in Tanauan. No one saw the killing or heard gunshots fired, but a bicycle that was not his was found beside him.
Balaba’s death on Jan. 26 was briefly recorded in the barangay logbook. The city police did not have any suspect, leaving it as another cold case.
“We could not say [who was behind it],” a resigned Lopez said. “Maybe there were too many people angry at him.”

Market thief
Lopez, 34, met Balaba, a native of Nueva Ecija province, about five years ago. They had four children, the youngest a 10-month-old boy. Balaba earned loose change from being a porter at the city market, she said.
Life was hard that Lopez’s monthly salary of P4,900 as a caretaker of the barangay hall was barely enough. That might have driven her husband to steal, she said.
Lopez also said Balaba sometimes used illegal drugs. “He was an occasional user,” she said in Filipino.
According to police records, Balaba was arrested on July 4, 2013, for stealing vegetables valued at P2,800, and again on Feb. 26, 2014, for stealing boxes of tuyo (dried fish), worth P16,000, from a market vendor. On the second offense, he spent a year and two months in jail.
Shame campaign
Prison time, though, was not the only form of punishment he would receive. In March 2014, the city government paraded him around the market with a placard branding him a magnanakaw (thief) and pieces of dried fish dangling from the waist.
“I felt sorry for him,” Lopez recalled. “But I pitied my children more because they were bullied in school.”
Balaba was the first crime suspect who underwent public shaming. The city government called it a “walk of shame,” resembling the medieval walk of atonement.
The public humiliation drew varied reactions. Some supported it while others criticized it as mental torture.
In July 2015, a man arrested for stealing P3,000 worth of cable wires also took Balaba’s route. This year, the walk of shame was staged six more times and more frequently. It involved one suspected rapist and users of illegal drugs.
Lesson
MAYOR ANTONIO HALILI
MAYOR ANTONIO HALILI
“[My intention] is to warn people. If you see these people [tagged as drug users], you would not want any of your family near them. The public has the right to that information,” Mayor Antonio Halili told the Inquirer.
It was also meant to teach crime suspects a lesson so they would not repeat their offense, he said.
But Balaba, after his release, went back to stealing. “He used to carry this long knife and steal bikes from houses,” said a village watchman, who requested anonymity.
The shame parades became frequent and “thematic” by the time then Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte won as President.
On May 23, the city government forced 11 drug suspects to walk under arches that read “Flores de Pusher,” simulating the traditional Santacruzan.
On June 19, the theme was “June Brides and Grooms,” involving seven suspected drug users. The women in the batch were forced to carry a bouquet. It was an “Independence Day” theme on July 7, involving six drug suspects.
Gerard Laresma, Tanauan information officer, said the city wanted to add a little “drama” to draw public attention.
“This began even before [the Duterte administration started office]. I declared a war on drugs since I took office,” said Halili, who won a second term in the May elections under the Liberal Party.
The mayor said Tanauan was once a haven of illegal drug trade. “I used to send them (suspected drug pushers) letters. I invited them to my office and talked them into changing their ways. There were some who listened,” he said.
This method, he said, forced pushers to leave, with some transferring to nearby towns and cities in Batangas. “I can’t do anything about that anymore (since) it’s already outside my jurisdiction,” he said.
Mayor’s group
Those paraded on the streets of Tanauan are only those arrested by the Mayor’s Anti-Crime Group (MACG), a group of about 70 civilians employed by the city government. Some of the MACG members have been issued firearms to augment the police force in curbing crime in the city.
After the walk, the suspects are immediately turned over to police officers, who would file charges in court and detain them.
Halili handpicked Allan Fajardo, a wealthy trader engaged in the scrapping business, to head the MACG.
Fajardo’s older brother, Rolando, was the suspected leader of a kidnap group behind the 1986 abduction of Japanese trader Noboyuki Wakaoji. Another brother, Polmark, is the village chief of Suplang in Tanauan and president of the Association of Barangay Councils.
“He is not his brother’s keeper, so to speak,” Halili said. “I needed someone with determination. [Allan] is very disciplined and he is very ‘clean.’”
The mayor denied that the MACG was his private armed group.
Incorrigible
So far, 35 suspected criminals have been forced to take the walk of shame. According to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), some are still detained.
“Whatever the law mandates has to be strictly adhered to by government agencies and instrumentalities. They are meting out punishments [even when suspects are not yet convicted],” said Jacqueline dela Peña, CHR director in Southern Tagalog region.
The CHR filed charges against Halili and the MACG for violating the human rights law on the first two instances. It is still investigating the rest of the cases, while closely monitoring the status of the victims.
“These people are incorrigible,” said Halili, who is earning the reputation as “Junior Duterte” for being tough on his policies, akin to the tough stance shown by President Duterte against crime in his 23 years as mayor of Davao City.
In defense of his campaign, Halili said the city’s crime rate significantly went down by deterring would-be criminals.
While he did not provide figures, Supt. Robert Baesa, the newly appointed city police chief, said the crime rate was lower than those recorded in Batangas and Lipa cities.
Tanauan’s Facebook account shows a video footage of a 3-minute interview with Balaba behind bars last year. A male voice could be heard asking him questions, such as “Did you think the CHR was right to accuse Mayor (Halili)?” Or “in short, are you admitting your offenses?”
In the footage, Balaba said he deserved what the mayor did to him and promised to change his ways once released. He repeatedly asked for help to find a job so he could send his children to school.
Balaba already lost that chance.