PDEA steps-up preventive education campaign on drug couriers
Posted on | Sunday 27 March 2011 | No Comments
By Lito Dar
BAGUIO CITY, March 27 – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Cordillera (PDEA-CAR) is now incorporating topic on the drug courier problem in its stepped up preventive education campaign in the local communities in the region.
This was affirmed by PDEA-CAR Regional Director Edgar Apalla, in an interview, relative to the scheduled execution of three Filipinos in China, who were convicted of drug trafficking cases.
“To save more victims, prevent more lives from being lost, families from being broken and of dreams and future being shattered, we are stepping up our preventive education campaign on drug couriers in the communities. To let the people truly realize how worse the country’s problem on drug courier is,” Apalla said.
Apalla also reiterated the government’s appeal to the public, especially those frequently travelling or working abroad to be extra cautious when dealing with strangers in the airports and other areas of transit and not to allow themselves to victimized by international drug syndicates.
PDEA , in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Philippine Information Agency, is involved in an anti-drug courier advocacy program nationwide.
In addition, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA-CAR) also already included the anti-drug courier campaign in their Anti-Trafficking in Person Campaign, as well as in the Pre-Departure Orientation Seminar (PDOS) for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA-CAR).
The Supreme Court of China has already ruled in finality the carrying out of the death penalty of the three Filipinos, on Wednesday, March 30.
The Philippine Government has also already done everything possible to save their lives.
The three Filipinos were also arrested, prosecuted and convicted within the scope of the laws of the People’s Republic of China.
Drug smuggling case is a serious crime in China. Under its law, smuggling heroine with a quantity more than 50 grams is given a mandatory death sentence.
The scheduled execution of the three Filipinos in China is not an isolated case. In the past two years, there were also four Japanese and a British National also executed in China for drug trafficking and persistent pleas for clemency by their respective government officials and diplomats also failed to change the verdict. *(PIA CAR)
BAGUIO CITY, March 27 – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Cordillera (PDEA-CAR) is now incorporating topic on the drug courier problem in its stepped up preventive education campaign in the local communities in the region.
This was affirmed by PDEA-CAR Regional Director Edgar Apalla, in an interview, relative to the scheduled execution of three Filipinos in China, who were convicted of drug trafficking cases.
“To save more victims, prevent more lives from being lost, families from being broken and of dreams and future being shattered, we are stepping up our preventive education campaign on drug couriers in the communities. To let the people truly realize how worse the country’s problem on drug courier is,” Apalla said.
Apalla also reiterated the government’s appeal to the public, especially those frequently travelling or working abroad to be extra cautious when dealing with strangers in the airports and other areas of transit and not to allow themselves to victimized by international drug syndicates.
PDEA , in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Philippine Information Agency, is involved in an anti-drug courier advocacy program nationwide.
In addition, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA-CAR) also already included the anti-drug courier campaign in their Anti-Trafficking in Person Campaign, as well as in the Pre-Departure Orientation Seminar (PDOS) for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA-CAR).
The Supreme Court of China has already ruled in finality the carrying out of the death penalty of the three Filipinos, on Wednesday, March 30.
The Philippine Government has also already done everything possible to save their lives.
The three Filipinos were also arrested, prosecuted and convicted within the scope of the laws of the People’s Republic of China.
Drug smuggling case is a serious crime in China. Under its law, smuggling heroine with a quantity more than 50 grams is given a mandatory death sentence.
The scheduled execution of the three Filipinos in China is not an isolated case. In the past two years, there were also four Japanese and a British National also executed in China for drug trafficking and persistent pleas for clemency by their respective government officials and diplomats also failed to change the verdict. *(PIA CAR)
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