PDEA, PNP engage PSU students in campaign
WAR ON DRUGS
THE anti-illegal drugs campaign to protect the youth in Pangasinan shifts to high gear.
A memorandum of agreement was signed by and between the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Pangasinan with the National Police Commission, Pangasinan Police Provincial Office and Pangasinan State University for them to directly work with the students in creating awareness in order to stop the influence and use of illegal drugs.
The MOA signing, an initiative of the National Police Commission directs the PNP and PDEA specifically to engage the students in the campaign against illegal drugs.
Dexter Asayco, PDEA provincial officer in Pangasinan, said a Student Crime Prevention Committee will be created as a counterpart of PDEA and PNP to help guard the students against the use of illegal drugs and to monitor activities of those involved in illegal drugs.
The Student Crime Prevention Committee will be organized in PSU campuses: Lingayen, Binmaley, Alaminos City, Infanta, San Carlos City, Bayambang, Sta. Maria, Urdaneta and Asingan.
Asayco said lectures will be conducted soon in the nine campuses of PSU to educate the students, being the most vulnerable targets of drug pushers on the ill effects of illegal drugs.
Meanwhile, Asayco said while there is no let up in the campaign on illegal drugs in the province, there is a delay in declaring towns as drug-cleared not because drug trading has intensified but because local governments are unable to comply with the strict terms requirements before a town can be declared drug-cleared.
He cited the requirement of a certification that all drug users and pushers have been identified and are no longer active because he said there are those who surrendered but are found to have returned to their old habits.
P/ Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, provincial police community relations chief, said 1,023 barangays in the province were initially drug-cleared but six barangays were reverted to their status as drug affected, making 254 barangays still drug-affected.
This Monday, November 26, the municipality of Mangaldan is set to be declared drug- cleared while Urbiztondo is tentatively set to be declared on December 3, Asayco added. (Nora Dominguez)
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