PDEA K9 unit guard Cotabato Airport from drug smuggling
Local News • 13:30 PM Fri Jan 22, 2021
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By:
Edwin O. Fernandez
An agent checks the cargoes to be loaded on a plane bound for Manila from the Cotabato Airport using a drug-sniffing dog. (From PDEA-BARMM)
COTABATO CITY --- Agents used dogs this week to detect shabu in the luggage of plane passengers bound for Manila from the Cotabato Airport in Maguindanao but found none.
The random, unannounced operation of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao the other day was meant to prevent any attempt to smuggle shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) from anywhere in central Mindanao to Metro Manila.
“No shabu was detected in the cargoes to be loaded on planes bound for Manila and in the bags of passengers containing their personal belongings,” Juvenal Azurin, director of PDEA-BARMM told reporters Friday.
He said they will continue with their drug detection efforts through their K9 unit at the Cotabato Airport and in main overland entry and exit points in Cotabato City, in Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur provinces to foil shabu smuggling attempts.