by admin | Jul 4, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, Major Events
TAGBILARAN CITY, July 4 (PIA)—In the serious drive against drugs, is there really a need for Bohol to purchase special equipment to test illegal substances immediately after raids and busts?
The purchase in question is an expensive special drug test implement that can accurately tell even the qualitative content of a drug sample.
The question surfaced over the most immediate need to confirm if the bust haul was indeed drugs and not any other adulterating substance, that the quality is indeed high and that the quantity remains unquestionable in after operation reports.
An incident over a huge drug haul during a raid on a suspected drug personality in Tagbilaran causes so much stir as later laboratory tests results showed the haul was nothing but alum.
This raised eyebrows as accusations of reduced weight and volumes of illegal substances before these evidence get to the crime laboratory have compounded the reasons to test and helped push members of the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) to determine if, aside from the PNP Crime Laboratory set up, buying special equipment to test drugs is necessary.
Bohol police crime laboratory operatives helping the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in enforcing anti drug operations however said the equipment present now that the PNP Crime Lab in Camp Dagohoy suffices.
The equipment which police authorities propose would be used to determine the purity and degree of adulteration for confiscated methamphithamine hydrochloride otherwise called shabu.
“It can cost millions,” PSupt Nicomedes Olaivar however said.
Wanting to weigh the necessity of the equipment, council members asked how the current tests are done.
Accusations that authorities could have something to do with a possible swap of the confiscated items into something useless, or deducting sizable quantities of drugs from confiscated volume to allow suspects to post bail are rife.
But as to the drugs being adulterated, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Commander Supt Olaivar admitted that due to the street value of drugs, adding alum to shabu is a usual practice.
Meanwhile, PDEA Bohol agent Maria Chona Egam as well as PDEA 7 Deputy Director Wardley Getalla reported that drugs here are sold as low as P300 per small pack.
Adulterating these with alum increases the weight and simultaneously increases the price, heaping profits, PSuperintendent Olaivar shared to the council.
The SWAT head hinted that the equipment may be needed to perform confirmatory tests [on drugs] prior to a major buy-bust.
As such, he said a gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS) test on the purity percentage of a confiscated shabu can help police authorities determine the quality of the illegal substance confiscated.
The GC/MS testing methodology is used to confirm presumptive drug screen specimens by providing the molecules identification and their varying degrees, says LabCorp.com.
But, Bohol prosecutor Macario Delusa clarified that the degree of purity of a substance is not any obstacle to generate a case worth prosecution in courts.
This also means that even if the volume is adulterated, as long as it tests positive for illegal substances, it already warrants the filing of suits.
Meanwhile, PDEA Bohol agent Egam explained that operatives leading the buy busts or the raids are held responsible for the custody of the evidence gathered and are responsible for bringing these to the crime laboratory immediately.
She added that the crime lab does the initial confirmatory tests through re-agents and issues chemists’ findings sufficient for the filing of appropriate cases.
With this, the PPOC believes the acquisition of a GC/MS is not yet a priority, thus the council sidelined the proposal. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
by admin | Jul 4, 2016 | Headlines, Major Events, National News
MANILA, July 4 (PIA)–Buksan karong bulana sa Comission on Elections (Comelec) ang rehistrasyon aron makabotar sa nagsingabot nga barangay ug Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) election karong tuig.
Matud pa ni Comelec Commissioner Luie Guia, sa Hulyo 15 hangtud 31 mahimong magparehistro ang mga buot mobotar sa eleksyon sa Oktubre ning tuig.
Kini matud pa ni Guia aron mahimong andam tulo ka buwan sa dili pa ang piniliay sa umaabot nga Oktubre.
Giingong dili na usab i-uswag ang rehistrasyon tungod kay apiki na ang Comelec sa oras.
Gihatagan usab og 15 ka adlaw nga mopasang-at og bisan unsang protesta ang gustong mobabag sa gitakdang registration.
Niadtong 2013 election, gipahigayon ang rehistrasyon gikan Hulyo 22 hangtud 31 diin kapin sa duha ka milyong indibidwal ang naka-parehistro aron mobotar sa Barangay election samtang adunay 3.1 milyiong kabataan ang nagpa-rehistro aron makabotar sa SK election. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jul 4, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, July 4 (PIA)–Gipagawas niadtong Biyernes, Hulyo 1 sa Malakanyang ang labing unang memorandum circular sa administrasyon ni Presidente Rodrigo Duterte nga alang sa mga opisyal ug empleyado sa gobyerno nga gitudlo sa niaging administrasyon ni kanhi Presidente Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III.
Ubos sa Memo¬randum Circular No. 1, tuyo niining lugwayan hangtud Hulyo 31, 2016 ang pag-alagad sa mga opisyal ug empleyado sa gobyerno ubos sa administrasyong Aquino.
Gihimo ni Duterte kining maong lakang aron maseguro ang hapsay nga transisyon ug turnover sa mga rekord ug dokumento sa mga departamento sa gobyerno.
Apil sa mga rekord ug dokumentong nahisgotan mao ang mga “hard and e-copies” nga giingong kinahanglang ma-turn over sa ilang mga manununod o sa pinakataas nga career official/personnel nga gi-alagaran nilang ahensya sa gobyerno.
Magpabilin sila sa gobyerno hangtud sa katapusan sa Hulyo, gawas lang kun bawion na ang ilang appointment, dawaton ang resignasyon, may nakita nang ihulip kanila o gihatagan sila og reappointment. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jul 4, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
TAGBILARAN CITY, July 4 (PIA)–Pormal nang gi-deklarar sa Malakanyang isip regular holiday ang Hulyo 6, adlaw nga Miyerkoles isip pag-obserba sa pagtapos sa Eid’l Fitr o Ramadan.
Kini base sa Proclamation No. 06 nga gilagdaan ni Presente Rodrigo Duterte karong adlawa.
Ang Eid al-Fitr ginasaulog sa mga igsuon natong Muslim sa tibuok kalibotan sulod sa tulo ka adlaw isip pagtapos sa ilang fasting.
Ubos sa Republic Act 9177, gihatagan og gahom ang Office of the President aron i-anunsyo ang pinal nga petsa alang sa maong religious holiday base usab sa rekomendasyon sa National Commission on Muslim Filipinos. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jul 1, 2016 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, July 1 (PIA)–Aron mas paspas ang pag-aksyon sa gobyerno, magbukas og 24-oras nga hotline ang administrasyon ni Presidente Rodrigo Duterte nga maoy tawagan alang sa mga sumbong sa publiko.
Miingon si Duterte sa labing una niyang cabinet meeting nga ang hotline 8888 ang modawat sa mga reklamo ug sumbong sa katawhan nga e-deretso sa matag ahensya sa gobyerno.
“I am setting up a complaint office 24 hours manned by 10 operators over the entire country,” matud pa ni Duterte sa iyang gabinete.
“The number would be 8888 and they can report to me any complaint and there will be a manager who will read their complaints with the proper office,” dugang sa sa bag-ong presidente nga nanumpa kagahapon.
Sa iyang kapin sa duha ka dekadang pagpamuno sa syudad sa Davao, nagtukod si Duterte og 24-hour emergency hotline 911 nga andam dayon moresponde.
Si Duterte ang ika-16 nga presidente sa Pilipinas human mokanaog sa puwesto kagahapon si kanhi Presidente Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
