NARCO WIG – In this screenshot taken from a video provided by the Colombian National Police, Colombian police catch a man smuggling packets of cocaine under his toupee at the airport in Cartagena, Colombia, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Via Colombian National Police) BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)...
An operation conducted by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) has thwarted an attempt to smuggle narcotics with an estimated value of P3.8 billion. Acting on report provided by the Intelligence Group, law enforcement officials successfully seized 530 packs of methamphetamine, each weighing around one...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the United States’ Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) have agreed to strengthen their cooperation on maritime law enforcement and bilateral efforts to combat transnational organized crimes. Photo: Philippine Coast Guard / PCG This was...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of Brunei Darussalam have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) to boost their fight against "trafficking and abuse of narcotics drugs, psychotropic substances, new psychoactive substances, and controlled...
SUBIC, Zambales – Four suspected drug personalities were arrested as anti-narcotic operatives raided a drug den on Sunday afternoon (May 15) at Purok 6B, Muslim Area, Barangay Calapacuan, Subic. Operatives of Philippine Drug enforcement Agency – Zambales Provincial Office, and police personnel...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House In 2012, we proposed the convening of a global summit against narcotics. We thought then of the need to unify and coordinate often conflicting national strategies, policies, and programs to counter the worldwide spread of narcotic drugs....
A total of 398 elected officials have been arrested in various anti-illegal drug operations since President Duterte launched the controversial "drug war" in 2016, and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) vowed on Friday, April 1, to intensify their operations as the May 2022 elections...
SAN JOSE DEL MONTE, Bulacan - Cash rewards will be granted policemen who will keep drug suspects alive and locked up in jail, rather than send them to the funeral parlor. Sen. MANNY PACQUIAO IN PATEROS 2 PDP-Laban (Pimentel wing) and PROMDI Party presidential bet Sen. Manny Pacquiao made this...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) opened Wednesday, Feb. 16, its K9 Team Leaders’ Course in simple rites at its national headquarters in Quezon City. Participating were 17 handlers and their Narcotics Detection Dogs (NDDs). In a statement, PDEA disclosed that the participants will...
Malacañang has, for the nth time, insisted that the United Nations (UN)-backed International Criminal Court (ICC) has no jurisdiction to investigate the Duterte administration's war against illegal drugs. (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Cabinet Secretary and Acting Presidential...
The government of United States (US) recently donated a drug detection and analysis equipment amounting to P3.5 million to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) for its K9 force. PCG K9 UNIT BOOST--Philippine Coast Guard K9 Force Commander Commodore Nelson B. Torre (third from left), U.S. Embassy in the...
Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) intercepted 31 parcels of suspected marijuana with an estimated street value of P324,000 in an anti-illegal drug operation in Dasmariñas City, Cavite on Thursday night, Nov. 4. (PDEA photo) Aided by the narcotics detection dogs “Jack”...
