News:2025-07-01/Policy/cordillera-police-disclose-named-marijuana-eradication-programmes-and-q2-2025-totals-at-icad-briefing

1 July 2025

Philippines eradication campaigns (2025)

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Cordillera police disclose named marijuana eradication programmes and Q2 2025 totals at ICAD briefing

At the second-quarter 2025 meeting of the Cordillera Inter-agency Committee on Anti-illegal Drugs Advocacy Cluster, held in Baguio City on 1 July 2025, Police Captain Frederick Chiday of the Police Regional Office Cordillera Administrative Region disclosed several named operational frameworks under which the Benguet and Kalinga Provincial Police Offices conduct cannabis eradication. The Benguet PPO runs Oplan Binnadang Gabot, a year-long eradication plan covering the municipalities of Kibungan, Kapangan, and Bakun, framed around the Cordilleran concept of binnadang (collective community action) and structured under a "quad concept" of operations, implementation, investigations, and community affairs. The Benguet PPO also conducts Oplan Marso, a month-long campaign each March timed to the dry-season harvest window, combining aerial and ground surveillance with eradication and case filing. The Kalinga PPO runs Oplan Charlie Weed, focused on remote mountainous and marijuana-prone barangays in Tinglayan municipality, and Oplan Ganja 2, emphasising rapid entry to target areas using land-navigation methodology to disrupt planting and harvest cycles. Chiday reported that PRO CAR conducted 75 marijuana eradication operations between March and June 2025, with seized illegal drugs including cannabis and methamphetamine valued at over ₱76.8 million. The PRO CAR's information-education campaign component includes the Kabataan Kontra Droga at Terorismo programme, mobilising students and youth in barangays, schools, and workplaces.

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2025-07-01 Policy Cordillera police disclose named marijuana eradication programmes and Q2 2025 totals at ICAD briefing At the second-quarter 2025 meeting of the Cordillera Inter-agency Committee on Anti-illegal Drugs Advocacy Cluster, held in Baguio City on 1 July 2025, Police Captain Frederick Chiday of the Police Regional Office Cordillera Administrative Region disclosed several named operational frameworks under which the Benguet and Kalinga Provincial Police Offices conduct cannabis eradication. The Benguet PPO runs Oplan Binnadang Gabot, a year-long eradication plan covering the municipalities of Kibungan, Kapangan, and Bakun, framed around the Cordilleran concept of binnadang (collective community action) and structured under a "quad concept" of operations, implementation, investigations, and community affairs. The Benguet PPO also conducts Oplan Marso, a month-long campaign each March timed to the dry-season harvest window, combining aerial and ground surveillance with eradication and case filing. The Kalinga PPO runs Oplan Charlie Weed, focused on remote mountainous and marijuana-prone barangays in Tinglayan municipality, and Oplan Ganja 2, emphasising rapid entry to target areas using land-navigation methodology to disrupt planting and harvest cycles. Chiday reported that PRO CAR conducted 75 marijuana eradication operations between March and June 2025, with seized illegal drugs including cannabis and methamphetamine valued at over ₱76.8 million. The PRO CAR's information-education campaign component includes the Kabataan Kontra Droga at Terorismo programme, mobilising students and youth in barangays, schools, and workplaces. https://pia.gov.ph/news/cordillera-police-sustains-intensified-crackdown-on-marijuana/ Philippines eradication campaigns (2025) Philippines Cordillera Administrative Region