Robredo’s drug war report used ‘unofficial data’ – PNP
Credit to Author: Darwin Pesco| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:26:37 +0000
VICE President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo used “unofficial data” in her report on the war on drugs, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Wednesday.
“These estimates are unofficial data. When you plan to sustain the anti-drug campaign, you have to do some estimates, and we do this by contingency planning,” Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac, PNP spokesman, said in a television interview.
Banac said the data used by Robredo was only theoretical and hypothetical and could not be used “to compare to the amount of drugs actually seized in operations”.
Banac said that the data was “an estimate and the VP used it to compare the amount of drugs confiscated during the actual operations”.
On Monday, Robredo claimed that 3,000 kilos of shabu were consumed weekly or 156,000 kilos per year.
Based on the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) data, Robredo reported, only 1,344 kilos of shabu were seized from January to October, 2019.
Meanwhile, the PNP reiterated that Oplan Tokhang could not be scrapped, contrary to the suggestion of Robredo in her report.
“It has accomplished so many things, taken drugs off the streets,” Banac said.