According to Police Senior Inspector Gerry Ligan, chief of Police Station 5, they spoke with the barangay council on August 3 to explain the purpose of the police's "plead and knock" campaign, and were able to get a majority vote from the council to allow the proceedings.
Barangay Chairman Jaime Frias II, who previously rejected the anti-drug campaign as a violation of human rights, was absent during the session
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Kagawad Oscar Palacio, Chairman of Peace and Order in Barangay 23, said that Frias cannot counter the council's decision as it was agreed upon by the majority.
Frias however stands firm in his views against the police's methods, and questioned why the alleged personalities were not arrested before now, while they were conducting drug operations, if the authorities already knew who they were.
Ligan meanwhile said that their method of knocking on the doors of people suspected to be involved in the illegal drug trade, and asking them to surrender, is not intended to shame anyone. It is supposed to make people change on their own for their own good, he said.
Police went to the homes of nine people suspected to be involved in the illegal drug trade on Thursday. They expect to add more people to their list with the help of those who surrendered, Ligan said.
SOURCE: ABS-CBN
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