Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Colombia, US To Replicate President Duterte’s Drug War
Countries faced with problems on illegal drugs are eyeing to
replicate the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) “Oplan Tokhang” to address
their problems on illegal substance abuse and trading.
Police Chief Inspector (PCI) Kimberly Molitas, National
Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) information officer and member of the International
Association of Women Police (IAWP), said this in an interview with PNA on
Tuesday, October 24.
Molitas is a transnational crime buster who represents the
Philippines in international for a talking on the country’s war on drugs.
During her visit to Colombia this month to talk on the
administration’s campaign on illegal drugs, Molitas said foreign law enforcers
expressed their plan to adopt “Oplan Tokhang” to combat their own problem on
substance abuse and trafficking.
Among the countries she visited where she recently talked on
the topic were Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Colombia, and USA including in New
York, which, she said, showed interest to replicate the program.
Molitas said that she visited these countries on invitations
to present the real score on the drug war in the Philippines.
“They have been looking at factual benefits of the ‘Oplan
Tokhang,’ how some suspects died during police operation, what the human rights
organization says, and what are reported on media,” she said.
Relaying her previous engagements with law enforcers in
these countries, Molitas said that she used data from the Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in her presentations.
“They were surprised that we have at least 1.3 million drug
surrenderers which, according to them, never happened to other countries facing
drug problems,” she said.
When asked what strategies were undertaken “OplanTokhang” to
make the 1.3 million drug suspects surrender, Molitas cited the PNP’s “Knock
and Plead scheme,” where policemen literally knocked on the doors of the drug
suspects and asked them to voluntarily surrender.
“They even asked me to accompany them to do the knock and
plead scheme,” she said.
“The Indonesian police are now preparing to implement their
own version of the Oplan Tokhang,” she added.
She also said that her counterparts in Colombia,
one of the countries known for being saddled with the war on drugs, were
surprised that the Philippines was able to convince drug personalities to
surrender and avail of the rehabilitation program being offered by the
government in partnership with the private sector.
Molitas said that foreign law enforcers were curious about
“Oplan Tokhang” and wanted to adopt the scheme.
Record shows that starting July 1, 2016 to date, there were
76,863 anti-drug operations already conducted in the Philippines with over a
million drug personalities surrendering and 113,932 arrested, yielding a total
of P18.84 billion worth of illegal drugs, paraphernalia and laboratory
equipment.
Source: Philippine News Agency
Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Colombia, US To Replicate President Duterte’s Drug War
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