By AARON RECUENCO
The biggest indication that the drug war is winning is the significant reduction of crime rate in the country, a ranking police official said on Wednesday amid reports that the campaign against illegal drugs is a failure.
Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, the chief directorial staff of the PNP, said he saw for himself how the crime rate consistently dropped since July 2016 when he was still assigned as director of the Quezon City Police District and the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO).
“It cannot be disputed that there was a big decrease in crime in Metro Manila since July 2016. The decrease in crime in the past three years even reached 58 percent,” said Eleazar.
The official highlighted the importance of Metro Manila in the link between crime and illegal drugs since the country’s capital serves as the picture of crime situation in the country.
Metro Manila is one of the favorite playing grounds of drug syndicates due to its big population and big consumers of drugs, mostly shabu. (Read full story on Tempo)
