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‘I’LL RESIGN’ PDEA 11 chief to quit if ‘Great Raid’is pursued VOL. 8 ISSUE 217 • THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2016
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HILIPPINE Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 11 regional director Adzhar Albani yesterday said he will resign if PDEA National Capital Region (NCR) conducts an operation in Davao City without coordinating with his office. “What’s the use? It’s an insult if there is no coordination. There is an impression that these people will not trust (us) for their operation,” he said in yesterday’ s AFP-PNP Press Corps forum held at Task Force Davao Headquarters. Albani said he already
told PDEA director general Arthuro Cacdac Jr. that he will resign if such an operation is launched without him being informed. “I also told Mayor Duterte last night (Monday) that I will resign if this operation from NCR will be pursued,” he added. Albani made the statement a day after Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte bared a plan, dubbed “The Great Raid,” to fabricate a shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) laboratory in the city in order to discredit him and
derail his presidential bid. Duterte had said he will kill operatives from the NCR if they pursue their plan to plant drugs in the city. Albani said under PDEA rules, operatives planning to conduct a drug raid in another area need to secure a pre-coordination certificate to ensure that their operation is legitimate. He said the alleged PDEA NCR plan to raid a drug laboratory in Davao City needs prior coordination because it would be a big operation. “We will issue a certificate to them,”
he said. Albani said his office does not want to prevent other law enforcement units from conducting drug operations in the city “but they must follow the right protocol.” “We are willing to help them. They need not to tell their real target. We will not ask their targets because their operation might fail,” he said. Albani said if the PDEA NCR operation is pursued, he will tell the public that the operation did not follow protocol. “Huwag nila kaming isama
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