Mangaldan Awaits Drug-Free Tag by PDEA

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

MANGALDAN – After those narcotics related personalities have been accounted in the two villages here, this town has been declared by the police as illegal drugs free, according to the chief of police.

ANTI NARCS CRUSADERS – Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno 

and Police Supt. Jeff Fanged

Superintendent Jeff Fanged said the declaration of the Municipal Anti-Drug Advisory Council has been delayed because some individuals in Barangays Bari and Poblacion could not be found.

With the 91 high value targets finally accounted this town that has been locking horns with the illegal substance is narcotic free before the eyes of the Philippine National Police.

Meantime, this burgeoning local government unit (LGU) is in the stage of documentation for the final validation as narcotics free by the Philippines Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).

This town and 28 towns and a city in the 44 towns and four cities’ Pangasinan have been cleared by the Provincial Police Office in Pangasinan of dangerous drugs related persons.

These LGUs and a city wait to be validated finally to be drugs free by the PDEA after they submitted those required pertinent documents.

 According to Police Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, PPO’s spokesman, these local government units are Asingan, Pozorrubio, Infanta, Sta. Barbara, Bani, Bugallon, Manaoag, San Manuel, Binalonan, Urbiztondo, Lingayen, San Jacinto, Calasiao, Sual, Umingan, Malasiqui, Alcala, Tayug, Bautista, Sta. Maria, Labrador, Basista, San Quintin, Sison, Aguillar, Mabini, Bolinao, Burgos, and Urdaneta City

The six towns and two cities that are not narcotics free before the evaluation of the police are the cities of Dagupan and San Carlos and the towns of Villasis, San Fabian, Rosales, Mangatarem, Binmaley, ad Balungao.

The PNP expect that comes December this year all the 44 towns and four cities in Pangasinan will be illegal drugs free.