Marcos orders tighter coastal watch vs floating drugs

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Marcos orders tighter coastal watch vs floating drugs

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Fishers help Coast Guard officers in Pangasinan in recovering sacks of suspected shabu from coastal areas. Facebook/Coast Guard District North Western Luzon 



MANILA — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has ordered law enforcement authorities to conduct a tighter watch on the country’s coastlines as part of efforts to prevent the entry of illegal drugs to the Philippines.

The Philippine leader’s statement comes after fishermen from Bataan and Pangasinan found and turned over billions of pesos worth of shabu floating in the sea.  

“We still have a drug problem in this country. Syempre pumapasok pa rin ang shabu. So sabi ko hulihin ninyo ang malalaki at bantayan ninyo ang malalaki. At saka puntahan ninyo kung saan pumapasok, yun ang isara natin. And we are slowly doing that. Sinabi ko sa coast guard at PNP, bantayan na ninyo kasi ayokong bumalik sa merkado yan,” Marcos said.

“Sirain na ninyo kaagad. As quickly as possible and make sure na nandun kayo para pag sinabing so many tons, ilang tonelada, yun talaga ang nandyan. Hindi nababawasan. Bilangin ninyo nang husto tapos buhusan nyo ng gasolina, sunugin na ninyo,” he added. 

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The Philippine leader said that while the government runs after big-time drug lords, the strengthened presence of policemen in communities would deter the activities of small-time drug dealers.

“Well, what is happening because we're concentrating sa mga bigtime drug syndicate, drug lord. May balita na bumabalik-balik sa mga bara-barangay, yung mga small time. Kaya yung Cops on the Beat, that's the solution to that,” he said.

“Kasi nagpapatrolya sila. Kahit sino kung dealer, hindi ka siguro mapapaiwan doon na mahuhuli ka lang ng pulis. So mapapalayo natin sila na maitigil na nila ang kanilang ginagawa.”

The Philippine National Police (PNP) last week said some 1.2 tons of shabu worth P8.8 billion was discovered by fishermen off the waters of Masinloc, Zambales; Santa Cruz, Ilocos Sur; and various coastal areas in Pangasinan.

Authorities believe the drugs found in at least 66 sacks came from the same source—suspected to be the Chinese-run Golden Triangle syndicate—as all the items had similar packaging.

At least nine fishermen from Bataan who discovered the shabu in Zambales have already received P100,000 from the local government, while the PNP provided them with sacks of rice as a gesture of appreciation.

Fishermen from Ilocos and Pangasinan will also be given incentives from the government, police said. 

— With a report from Mike Delizo, ABS-CBN News 


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