PNP breaches 4M mark on houses visited under Project Tokhang

The Philippine National Police has visited more than four million houses in its intensified campaign against illegal drugs since July.

Based on data from police regional offices as of 6 a.m. November 24, a total of 4,041,333 houses have been visited under Project Tokhang where police officers go to houses of drug suspects to convince them to mend their ways.

This resulted in the surrender of 804,589 drug suspects, of which 746,534?? were users and 58,055 were pushers.

The PNP also conducted 36,445 anti illegal drug operations which resulted in the deaths of 1,948 drug suspects and arrest of 37,230 others.

The PNP is looking at having the estimated 1.8 million drug suspects in the country surrender to authorities in the first six months of the administration in compliance with the campaign promise of President Rodrigo Duterte.

However, Duterte, seeing the gravity of the drug problem, sought for an extension of another six months to rid the country of illegal drugs. — Amita Legaspi/RSJ, GMA News