Five HVTs nabbed, hunt for 5 continues
WAR ON DRUGS UPDATE
FIVE listed high value targets (HVT) for drugs in Pangasinan have already been accounted for while four more have been tracked down and could be likewise arrested soon as the warrants for their arrest are secured from the courts.
Another HVT remains at large and could not be located in Pangasinan presently.
The update on the war on drugs in the province was provided by P/Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, chief of the Police-Community Relations at the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) during the KBP Forum last Thursday, May 25.
Florentino said the five arrested HVTs were among the 1,534 drug personalities arrested since the war on drugs started on July 1, 2016.
Of the number, 1,332 are pushers and 203 are users.
These, he said, were the results of 1,518 operations conducted by the police and PDEA through the service of 179 search warrants, 44 arrest warrants, 879 buy-bust operations, 39 ‘Oplan Sita’, 67 police responses and 10 checkpoint operations.
From these operations, 33 drug personalities died when they resisted arrest and shot at lawmen conducting anti-drug operations.
The combined operations netted a total of 659.9 grams of shabu and 649.6 grams of marijuana.
Meanwhile, 19,442 other drug personalities who have so far surrendered as of May 24.
He said some 2,000 identified users and pushers in Pangasinan have not come forward to surrender for rehabilitation.
Of the 19,449 who have so far surrendered, more than 11,000 have been enrolled in Community-based Rehabilitation Program in their respective towns. Of the number, at least 1,944 already graduated.
Florentino also said that of the 1,269 drug affected barangays in Pangasinan, 1,084 were already drug-cleared with 85 barangays still undergoing clearing operations to date.
He said that as far as the Pangasinan police is concerned, Alaminos City, Laoac, Agno, Bolinao, Natividad and San Nicolas are already drug cleared but their clearance have yet to be validated by PDEA and this could still take some time.
Sto. Tomas where former Dangerous Drugs Board chairman Antonio Villar Jr. was a former mayor, continues to remain as the only drug-free town in Pangasinan to date. (Leonardo Micua)
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