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The first operation by the PNP-DEG was the raid of the office of the Wealth & Personal Development (WPD) Lending Inc. at Barangay 252 in Tondo, Manila at 4:45 pm on October 8, 2022. The law enforcers which went in undercover were able to seize 990 kilograms (2,180 lb) of methamphetamine or shabu worth ₱6.7 billion stockpiled inside as well as ...
The Philippine drug war, known as the War on Drugs, is the intensified anti-drug campaign that began during the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, who served office from June 30, 2016, to June 30, 2022. The campaign reduced drug proliferation in the country, [ 23 ] but has been marred by extrajudicial killings allegedly perpetrated by ...
3 injured. On February 24, 2021, a botched buy-bust operation resulted in a shootout between units of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. [1] The incident resulted in the deaths of two police officers, a PDEA agent and an informant. [2]
Guilty (Perez) Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman were three teenagers who were killed on August 16 to 18, 2017, during the course of the Philippine drug war. On the evening of August 16, 2017, a 17-year-old Filipino student named Kian Loyd delos Santos was fatally shot by police officers conducting an anti-drug operation in ...
President Rodrigo Duterte has claimed that the country could become a "narco-state". Two of the most used and valuable illegal drugs in the country are methamphetamine hydrochloride (known locally as shabu) and marijuana. [2][3] In 2012, the United Nations said the Philippines had the highest rate of methamphetamine use in East Asia, and ...
The New Bilibid Prison complex. The New Bilibid Prison drug trafficking scandal is a criminal investigation and political scandal concerning allegations of government involvement in illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines. The allegations were made by President Rodrigo Duterte after announcing that ...
The National Bureau of Investigation's (NBI) Task Force Against Illegal Drugs (TFAID) and Research and Analysis Division, the Lucena District Office, along with the Philippine National Police-Infanta and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Lucena conducted a seizure of methamphetamine hydrochloride, an illegal drug in the Philippines, on March 15, 2022 in Brgy.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA, / piːˈdeɪə /; [1] Filipino: Ahensiya ng Pilipinas sa Pagpapatupad ng Batas Laban sa Bawal na Gamot[2]) is the lead anti-drug law enforcement agency, responsible for preventing, investigating and combating any dangerous drugs, controlled precursors and essential chemicals within the Philippines ...