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(File photo) MANILA - The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Friday vowed to explore further measures to increase the agency's conviction rate against drug personalities. "To be frank, what I really want is a 100 percent conviction rate for all drug cases filed, but this only happens in a perfect world, so I will settle for the high conviction rates which we have at present. Of course, I am pleased with the numbers that we have been tallying, we have made leaps and bounds throughout the years with regards to legislation that aim to improve our capability to prosecute organized drug trafficking rings," PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva said in a statement, citing statistics of drug cases filed in court. The PDEA's case monitoring system reported 405,062 drug cases filed in court from 2002 up to 2022. These cases include those filed by PDEA as well as other law enforcement agencies such as the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of
Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested a policeman assigned at the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) and two of his alleged cohorts on Monday, Aug. 29, in a buy-bust in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan.
PDEA Region 2 Director Joel Plaza identified the suspects as Police Cor