Police investigates members of prominent families in Mandaue linked to illegal drugs

The Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) is validating reports on the alleged involvement of some members of prominent families in the city in illegal drugs activities .

Senior Supt. Roberto Alanas, MCPO chief, said they will soon share their validated information with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA 7).

“As of now, we are gathering information and validating this. All of this will be forwarded to the regional intelligence and then they will forward this to PDEA since (the) PNP (Philippine National Police) and (the) NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) are temporarily prohibited from conducting drug operations,” Alanas told reporters in an interview on Tuesday.

Alanas, however, begged off from naming any of the prominent family members being investigated citing the confidentiality of the matter.

Alanas said the names came out during a recent police briefing with mayor Luis Gabriel Quisumbing.

Quisumbing earlier told law enforcers including PDEA and the NBI to crackdown against those involved in the illegal drugs trade irregardless of their social status.

“It is really sad to note how many people (coming) from prominent families in Mandaue are involved in drugs,” Quisumbing said Facebook post after his February 5 briefing with the police.

Meanwhile, the city now has 46 Field Training Policemen (FTPs) who are deployed in the police station to help beef up security in the next five months.

The FTPs are assigned at the police stations in Barangays Subangdaku, Basak, Casuntingan and Canduman to assist in police patrols and traffic management in these areas.

“Technically, they are already policemen. They are undergoing this training so that they may apply the theories they learned in the classroom to the field,” Alanas said.

But the FTPs are prohibited from handling firearms and from executing an affidavit of arrest.