THE Dagupan City police brushed aside speculations that illegal drug trading in the city has resumed, pointing to the arrests of ‘newly emerged drug personalities’ and not the drug personalities of old, and mostly from other towns.

P/Supt. Franklin Ortiz, officer-in-charge at the Dagupan police, said the drug suspects being arrested by the police are all new faces, not the “old familiar faces” in the drug trade.

He said some of the “new faces” arrested are not from the city but are from other towns who did not have voluntarily surrendered in their respective places and who continue to operate outside their towns.

But nonetheless, Ortiz said, the police have not relaxed in their operations against illegal drug activities in the city so that Dagupan can be finally declared drug-free in a few months.

To date, he said, only three of the 31 barangays still remain drug-affected – Barangays Calmay and Pugaro and Barangay 2 & 3.

There are drug personalities in the three villages that yet to be accounted for.

Meanwhile, the 28 barangays that have been cleared barangays are still undergoing validation by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.

At same time, he said the police are taking an active role in the community-based rehabilitation for some 1,200 drug surrenderers under the Masa Masid program of the Department of Interior and Local Government, as well as the Sagip User Rehabilitation Enhancement (SURE) program of the city government. (Leonardo Micua)

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