The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is allocating
portions of its military camps as sites of rehabilitation centers for drug
dependents.
This was a result of the President Rodrigo Roa Duterte's visit
in military camps the past weeks. “We are just waiting for the pre-fabricated
materials to put up the building,” Duterte said.
With the 600,000 drug users and pushers who surrendered to
the government as of last week, Duterte said he would need a big area to put
the rehab centers nationwide so that drug dependents would undergo
psycho-social interventions and counseling.
Duterte was eyeing the military camps where the government
could build rehab centers given the lack of rehab centers in the country that
can accommodate the increasing number of drug dependents under his all-out war
against illegal drugs.
Earlier Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director
General Isidro Lapeña said there were five regions which do not have
rehabilitation centers except for privately-operated facilities.
PDEA is also looking for ways to establish drug
rehabilitation centers. Lapeña said they are also considering rehab programs
for “outpatient” drug dependents or those whose cases are not serious.
The fight against illegal drugs and criminality is on top of
the administration’s priorities as a foundation of bringing down crimes in the
country and offer better climate for business.
With barely two months of the drug campaign, Presidential
Communications Office Secretary Martin Andanar announced that crime incidents
in the country are declining.
He announced that the Philippine National Police (PNP)
recorded a decline in crimes to 50,817 in July, this year, compared to the same
period last year registering 56,339. Index crimes, which involves crimes
against persons and property, had posted a huge 31-percent decrease, from
17,105 incidents in July 2015 down to 11,800 in July this year, according to
Andanar.
Andanar said in the July 2016 crimes against property went
down to 4,476 incidents, or 40.3 percent, and crimes against persons declined
by 13.82 percent, or 829 incidents, as compared to the same period last year.
Duterte earlier noted that criminality is expected to go
down because crimes committed are related to illegal drugs.
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