WAR VS. ILLEGAL DRUGS INTENSIFIES LINGAYEN—The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) is set to launch Oplan DIGUNG next week to further intensify its all-out war versus illegal drugs, even as 1,059 drug personalities have surrendered to various police stations since July 1. A week earlier, PPPO acting police director P/Sr….

UNCLOS FAVORABLE RULING ON WPS INFANTA—While families of fishermen who fish in Scarborough Shoal hailed the landmark decision of the UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Laws of the Sea) Permanent Court of Arbitration that ruled in favor of the Philippines, there is doubt in their minds that they are finally…

LINGAYEN—The drug testing for almost 2,000 police personnel of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) in 48 police stations in the province is almost complete. P/Supt. Jackie Candelario, information officer of PPPO, said only police officers on schooling status comprise the four percent that remain untested. Meanwhile, the result of…

MANGALDAN—What policeman would surrender his own brother for being a drug user? The town’s police chief here not only arranged for his younger brother’s surrender but detained him as well to set the example that no one will be spared in his police station’s anti-illegal drugs operations. P/Supt. Benjamin Ariola,…

SECOND District Board Member Raul Sison found himself invoking the power and authority of a citizen’s arrest when he caught and confronted a group having a pot session in a house in Barangay Talogtog, Mangatarem town. Mr. Sison said he responded to a report from Barangay Captain Glen Tamondong seeking…

URDANETA CITY—Some 1,177 drug personalities in this city joined the mass surrender Friday as a result of the city police’s Project Double Barrel and Oplan Tokhang. The surrender was held at the Urdaneta City Cultural and Sports Complex and witnessed by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Director-General Isidro Lapeña and P/Senior…