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                    [Title] => GMA revamps drugs board following US ‘drug haven’ report on RP
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo is revitalizing the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) and putting it in charge of the fight against illegal drugs following a US government report describing the Philippines as a "drug smuggler’s haven."


"The DDB is provided by law to be a separate department and to take over the anti-drug campaign from the police," Mrs. Arroyo told STAR columnist Babe Romualdez in a one-on-one interview at Malacañang yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 325799 [Title] => GMA revamps drugs board following US ‘drug haven’ report on RP [Summary] => President Arroyo is revitalizing the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) and putting it in charge of the fight against illegal drugs following a US government report describing the Philippines as a "drug smuggler’s haven."

"The DDB is provided by law to be a separate department and to take over the anti-drug campaign from the police," Mrs. Arroyo told STAR columnist Babe Romualdez in a one-on-one interview at Malacañang yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 211055 [Title] => PDEA admits it has no proof to pin down Lacson on drug raps [Summary] => The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has not started any investigation of persistent allegations that declared presidential candidate and opposition Sen. Panfilo Lacson was involved in drug trafficking, PDEA director and Interior Undersecretary Anselmo Avenido said yesterday.

Avenido, guest at the weekly Kapihan sa Sulo news forum, said PDEA did not investigate the charges because no less than three Senate committees were already looking into the allegations.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174225 [Title] => GMA goes after 226 drug rings [Summary] => Taking her war against crime a step further, President Arroyo yesterday ordered an all-out campaign against over 11 transnational and 215 local illegal drug syndicates operating in the country.

Mrs. Arroyo gave the order after law enforcement agencies, led by the newly formed Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), mapped out strategy in a two-day conference concluded yesterday at Camp Crame in Quezon City.

She said the groups will be "targeted and dismantled" in the same way that police have pursued kidnappers.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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