Drug agency to deploy personnel in airport
March 02, 2011
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Central Luzon will deploy some of its agents at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) to boost its anti-drug courier program.
Ronald Allan Ricardo, regional director of PDEA, said the drug agency is looking into providing DMIA at the Clark Freeport Zone a substantial number of agents to help airport security in ensuring that no drug courier or drug mule enters or exits the country via the premiere airport.
Drug mules or drug couriers are individuals who transport dangerous drugs in exchange for a huge amount of money.
Ricardo said plans are ongoing and that the agency is now making the necessary coordination and ground works with DMIA officials.
He also expressed delight over DMIA’s appreciative reception of the scheme.
In a separate interview, Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) president Victor Jose Luciano confirmed PDEA’s deployment of its agents to DMIA.
Luciano said the move is a welcome development and CIAC, which is the mandated developer and operator of DMIA, fully supports it.
Moreover, Ricardo said the country may be lacking in terms of detection devices but intensive manning and strict inspection procedure at airports could decrease and eventually eliminate drug couriers.
The PDEA is also into massive information campaign in the region against drug mules, tying up with the Philippine Information Agency in Central Luzon. This, according to Ricardo, is the most effective weapon in advocating the anti-drug courier program.
“Hopefully, through our information campaign, our fellow Filipinos, who are engaged in this style of drug trafficking, will be awakened,” Ricardo said.
He added there have been reports that recruitment for drug couriers is prevalent in the provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga and Subic Bay Freeport.
Ricardo, however, clarified that recruiters in these areas mostly belong to West African drug syndicates operating in the country.
He said one style of these recruiters is they first make potential recruits, specifically women. Their intimate partners in turn recruit as much as 50 drug couriers per single recruiter.
Recruiters, Ricardo said, lure potential recruits with huge amount as payment for their service as drug couriers.
Price offers, he said, range from $2,000 and above.
Countries such as China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand are the usual places drug couriers go to conduct their business.
The drug courier problem emanates from an emerging trend in transporting illegal drugs using Filipino “drug couriers” that poses a major concern to the Philippine government. (Charlene Cayabyab)
Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2011/03/02/drug-agency-deploy-personnel-airport-142534
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