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SAYING the drug problem has not been eradicated, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) to go after large-scale sources of illegal drugs and quickly destroy seized narcotics to prevent them from slipping back into the streets again.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In his latest podcast interview, President Marcos acknowledged that the problem of illegal drugs persists and ordered PNP chief Gen. Nicolas Torre III needs to get to the bottom of this.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe still have a drug problem in this country. Siyempre pumapasok pa rin \u2018yung shabu. So, sabi ko, you (Torre) continue to \u2013 pero \u2018yung hulihin ninyo \u2018yung malalaki. At saka puntahan ninyo kung saan pumapasok. Iyon ang isara natin. And we\u2019re slowly doing that,\u201d the President said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Chief Executive also directed the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) to help the police prevent attempts to smuggle drugs into the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The confiscated narcotics should be quickly and completely destroyed, ordered the President.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cBantayan na ninyo kasi ayokong bumalik sa merkado \u2018yan. Sirain na ninyo kaagad as quickly as possible. And make sure na nandoon kayo para \u2018pag sinabing so many tons, ilang tonelada, \u2018yun talaga ang nandiyan. Hindi nababawasan. Bilangin ninyo nang husto, tapos buhusan niyo ng gasolina, sunugin na ninyo,\u201d President Marcos said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Over the past few weeks, law enforcement authorities have seized nearly 1,300 kilos of shabu worth around P8.775 billion found by fishermen in packages left floating in waters off Zambales, Pangasinan, Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, and Cagayan.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n While focusing on big sources of drugs, President Marcos also ordered law enforcers to keep small-time dealers from returning to the streets.<\/strong>\u201cMay balita na bumabalik-balik sa mga bara-barangay \u2018yung mga small time. Kaya \u2018yung Cops on the Beat, that\u2019s the solution to that. Kasi nagpapatrolya sila,\u201d the President said<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SAYING the drug problem has not been eradicated, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) to go after large-scale sources of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14617,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions\/14617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}