BY: REY ANTHONY H. CHIU
BOHOL, May 29, (PIA)—From the time this feared Manila south anti organized crime czar took the leadership truncheon in Bohol’s Camp Dagohoy August 15, 2013 anti drug operations in Bohol netted over P8 million worth of dangerous drugs and paraphernalia.
According to Police Senior Superintendent Dennis Agustin, Camp Dagohoy has conducted 141 anti-drug operations and siezed 139.75 grams of hash weed and 673.37 grams of methampithamine hydrochloride or commonly called shabu in a report to the Provincial Peace and Order Council in a meeting on May 27.
It may be recalled that drug problem in Bohol never came to the surface and was not pronounced in the past years, or until the most recent successes in anti-drug operations forced local leaders to rethink how alarming the social menace has become.
Bohol Governor Edgar Chatto admits the drug problem has affected Boholano families.
In previous PPOC meetings, police have reported that drug affectation in Bohol has reached 363 of its 1109 barangays, 23 of these barangays are seriously affected.
Chatto then pressed for the need for Bohol communities to unite against an enemy as organized as the drug distribution ring operating in the towns.
Despite the calls illegal drug remains to be the major problem, police records proved.
In his report to the PPOC, Agustin bared that in the past two months, police confiscated 28.64 grams of shabu, which the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) valued at P337, 952.00.
All of these were gathered in 34 police and joint allied forces operations from April to May, 2014, Agustin said.
As the police intensified its anti-drugs operations. Agustin also reported that several of the killings that happened in Bohol were ascribed to drug turf wars.
Agustin pointed out that 10 of the shooting incidents happening in Bohol in the last five months may have been drug related. He cited that drug related cases came as high as 2 in January, 3 in February, I in March, 3 in April. (mbcn/rahc/PIA7-Bohol)