LA TRINIDAD, Benguet: Some 504 drug personalities were arrested and more than P1.1 billion worth of illegal drugs were confiscated by combined police operatives and anti-narcotics agents during the aggressive anti-drug operations of the local police force in 2022.

BGen. Mafelino A. Bazar, regional director of the Cordillera Police Regional Office (Procor), said that from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2022, 620 anti-illegal drugs operations were conducted by Procor operatives from buy-bust operations, marijuana eradication, police response, implementation of search warrants, service of warrants of arrest, checkpoints, to interdiction operations.