No illegal drugs found in W. Pangasinan fish cages
IMPLAN BIG TIME
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan PNP confirmed that no illegal drug was found on fish cages, establishments and warehouses by a composite team of policemen and members of various government agencies that conducted “Implan Big Time” on the business sector last October 4 in Western Pangasinan.
The inspection zeroed in on fish cages and warehouses owned and operated by Chinese and Taiwanese nationals amid suspicions that they are operating drug laboratories.
The raiding team was composed of elements from the Pangasinan police, Criminal Investigation Group, Department of Health, Bureau of Immigration, Bureau of Fire Protection and other government agencies.
The operation led by Acting-Police Provincial Director Ronald Oliver Lee was initially concentrated in Sual and Alaminos City, Anda and Bolinao.
The raid was planned to validate a raw information that circulated three weeks ago that milkfish (bangus) produced in the cages owned by the foreign investors were being stuffed with illegal drugs before their shipment to Metro Manila.
The composite teams also inspected the ice plants and warehouses in the towns mentioned but did not find any trace of illegal drugs, but confiscated unlicensed eight short and long firearms in the hands of private security agencies hired by the foreign nationals.
The Chinese and Taiwanese nationals were not around during the inspection and only their local caretakers and their other workers overseeing their warehouses and ice plants were questioned by the team.
It was the first time the fish cages were subjected to inspection by authorities, decades after the foreign nationals set up these fish cages in western Pangasinan.
The BFP also checked if their warehouses and other establishments complied with safety requirements under the Fire Code of the Philippines.
Implan Big Tme will inspect business establishments suspected of operating shabu laboratories and to determine if these establishments are complying with the existing laws and ordinances, including licenses of security guards.
LOOSE FIREARMS
Meanwhile, Lee confirmed that there are still 2,305 unregistered firearms out of the 18,283 gun holders in the province.
Some 2,246 unregistered firearms were already surrendered now in the custody of Pangasinan PNP. The number includes the 1,256 unregistered shotguns issued by the provincial government to the barangays.
Dagupan City listed the highest number of unregistered firearms with a total of 297, San Carlos City-217, Malasiqui-216 and Urdaneta City with 105 unregistered firearms. (Leonardo Micua/ Nora Dominguez)
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