Sunday, March 25, 2012

Binay To NBI: Press Drive Vs Illegal Drugs Recruitment Syndicates

Vice President Jejomar C. Binay urged authorities Thursday, March 15 to intensify the campaign against illegal drugs and human trafficking.

Binay issued the call during the 20th Anniversary of the Batch 30/3 Agents and Special Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Academy.

The Vice President is chairman emeritus of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) and Presidential Taskforce Against Illegal Recruitment (PTFAIR).

The Vice President also lauded the NBI’s recent rescue of 40 human trafficking victims, as well as the arrest and subsequent filing of cases against 21 suspected violators of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003.

“It assures the nation that the Bureau’s vigilance remains undiminished, but we need to work even harder,” he noted.

He also urged the Bureau to be more vigilant in pursuing those who defy the laws of the country, as well in making it “a tough place for criminal enterprise to flourish.”

“We must work to uproot not just the local syndicates that prey on our people. We have to take the fight to foreign groups that wrongly believe that the Philippines is fertile ground for their activities,” Binay added. /MP

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