Zambo Sur town employees, policemen ordered to undergo drug test

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, July 6 (PNA) –- Local government officials to include the barangay officials as well as police personnel in the nearby town of Dumingag have been ordered to undergo drug test.

The order to undergo drug test issued by newly-elected Dumingag Mayor Mark Pacalioga was the first directive of the official upon his assumption of office.

Pacalioga said the move is in support to the campaign of President Rodrigo Duterte against the proliferation of prohibited drugs.

Butch Cabilan, Dumingag municipal administrator, and the members of the municipal council have immediately submitted themselves to drug test just after the issuance of the order.

Cabilan said the move showed they fully support the anti-drug campaign of the town mayor.

Pacalioga and his father Vice Mayor Nacianceno Pacalioga and the entire police force of Dumingag are scheduled to undergo drug test next week.

It will be recalled that the first two batches of “drug personalities” consisting of 20 people to surrender in this province is from the town of Dumingag.

The police authorities refer drug personalities to either pushers or users of prohibited drugs.

In related development, 110 drug personalities have voluntarily surrendered on Tuesday to police authorities in the nearby municipality of Dumalinao.

Chief Insp. Eric Humpa, Dumalinao police chief, said five of the 110 are included in the drug watch list of his office. (PNA)
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