PNP destroys P20-M marijuana plants in Cordillera anti-drug op

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — More than 100,000 fully grown marijuana plants with an estimated street value of P20 million were uprooted and destroyed by police during a July 12 operation in the boundary of Sadanga town in Mountain Province and the Kalinga municipality of Tinglayan.

The marijuana plants were discovered in a mountainous area between Mountain Province and Kalinga and were immediately pulled out of the ground and destroyed on site, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP) Public Information Office (PIO) in a July 13 social media post.

It said the marijuana eradication initiatives are part of the police force’s continuing campaign against the cultivation and distribution of illegal drugs in the Cordillera region.

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The operation was carried out by personnel from the Mountain Province Police Provincial Office, including the Sadanga Municipal Police Station, Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit, Provincial Intelligence Unit, 1st and 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Companies, and the Community Affairs and Development Unit, in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Mountain Province Provincial Office.

Quoting PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez Jr., the PIO post said the police would continue intelligence-driven and focused operations with partner agencies and local communities under the PNP’s Enhanced Managing Police Operations program to address security concerns. /das

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