Pubdate: Tue, 14 Jun 2005
Source: Mindanao Times (Philippines)
Copyright: 2005 Mindanao Times.
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PDEA 11 CITED IN INT'L TRAINING CENTER

THE PHILIPPINE Drug Enforcement Agency in the region has been cited as
a case study by an international training center of law enforcers
based in Thailand.

PDEA regional director Supt. Wilkins Villanueva said the training
center viewed the drug bust of a shabu laboratory on December 31, 2004
in Dumoy, Toril as a successful police operation.

"The exploits of PDEA 11 has been used as a resource material for
other anti-drug agencies in Asia," Villanueva said.

Villanueva said what stood out from among other cases is their
documentation of the operation from surveillance to the actual raid.

The raid was the largest operation of PDEA in terms of the quantity of
shabu though six Oriental-looking men, who were said to be working in
the laboratory as chemists, were killed in the raid.

The drug bust and succeeding raids cut short the operation of illegal
drugs in the city which could have harmed hundreds of people including
children.

In the weekly press-forum Talakayan, Balitaan at Kaalaman (Tabak),
Villanueva  said that due to his job, he had been receiving numerous
death threats from drug lords.

But "death threats are but normal for me," he said.
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