25 Tokhang Drug Surrenderees Completed PRO-9 H.O.P.E. Community-Based Rehabilitation Program

By HIROHITO 'jong' D. CADION             

         

PAGADIAN CITY (June 22, 2018) – At least Twenty-five Tokhang Illegal Drug surrenderees of Zamboanga City Police Station-4 (ZCPS-4) had just completed the six mind module sessions of Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) Healing in Oneness through Policing Education (HOPE) Recovery and Wellness Program as they graduated on June 20, 2018 at PRO-9 Multi-Function Hall, Camp Batalla, JRT Boulevard, Cawa-Cawa, Zamboanga City.

ZCPS-4 is under the leadership of PCInsp. Hazel Fernandez based in Barangay Culianan.

PCInsp. Helen L Galvez, Focal Person of PRO-9 Recovery and Wellness Program said that the graduates had successfully completed the Community-Based Rehabilitation and Treatment of the HOPE Recovery and Wellness Program consisting of Mind Modules Facilitation of DUTERTE Program, Spiritual and Moral Formation, Shielding and Metal Arc Wielding, and Community Services with a total of two hundred ninety-six hours.

The graduates received NC1 certificate from Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) on Arc Welding and individually will awarded with starter kit of wielding machine from TESDA. They will also be absorbed and hire by Zamboanga City Councilor Lilibeth Nuno in Stone Rich Corporation, PCInsp. Galvez also said.

PCInsp. Galvez added that the 25-graduates are just part of nine-thousand tokhang drug surrenderees in whole Zamboanga Peninsula region who were given series of intervention through the PRO-9 Recovery and Wellness Program.

The graduation ceremony is the 3^rd batch who surrendered in Tokhang to ZCPO undergoing HOPE program was witnessed by the PCSupt. Edwin S De Ocampo, Deputy Regional Director for Administration, PSSUPT Alan Nazarro, City Director of ZCPO, PDEA, TESDA, Barangay Council of Taluksangay, ZCPS-4 led by PCInsp. Hazel Fernandez, Zamboanga City Medical Center and religious groups.

The PRO-9 HOPE Recovery and Wellness Program include Skills Trainings/Workshops facilitated by TESDA, Regular Rehabilitation Sessions and Community Service. It also offer effective medical, psychological and spiritual interventions to help drug users break free from drug dependence and were fully reintegrated in the society with the needed skills for them to be productive members of the community.

PRO-9 Regional Director CSupt. Billy B Beltran expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the stakeholders for their utmost effort extended to the twenty five drug surrenderees which realized the completion of the program.