Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Negros Island Region(BJMP-NIR) launched Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Program initially at Jose Torres Elementary School in Brgy. Singcang-Ariport in Bacolod last Friday, February 3, 2017. The activity was attended by parents, students and teachers. CIns Ruth Estales, Warden Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) lectures before parents, teachers & students of JR Torres Elem Sch. during the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Program launched by BJMP together with (seated, left to right) JO1 Ma. Victoria Theresa Otom, SInsp. Nilon Magbanua, Supt. Larry Fuentes, Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran and Supt. Amelito Fuentes last Friday, February 3, 2017.*(VMO photo)
Jail Superintendent Larry Fuentes, BJMP-NIR Provincial Administrator said the activity was in sync with the MASA MASID (Mama-mayang Ayaw Sa Anomalya Mamamayang Ayaw Sa Iligal na Droga) program recently launched by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to fight corruption, illegal drugs and criminality. “We go down to schools in order to start drug abuse prevention as early as possible,” Fuentes said. Superintendent Amelito Fuentes, BJMP-NIR Assistant Regional Director for Administration, on the other hand said that BJMP’s role is to custody and rehabilitate in-mates. “We take this initiative to strengthen the national government’s effort in combating drug abuse down to the school level.” He added that as of January 2017, inmates in NIR totaled to 6,456 and 3,154 of which are drug-related cases. In Bacolod City, Brgy. Taculing jail has 854 inmates of which 551 are involved drug-related incidents. Meanwhile in Handumanan, Jail male inmates, totalling 164 drug-related cases out of 543 inmates. Female jail inmates on the other hand has 123 drug-related cases from a total of 163 inmates. Bacolod Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran, who was an invited guest speaker, addressed the parents to closely monitor their children. Moreover, Familiaran congratulated the teachers of JR Torres Elem Sch. spearheaded by their Principal Normy Canja being the pioneer school to hold the lecture. The said activity was the first part of the four-module lectures which will be done in three more Fridays at the same school. One of the lecturers was Chief Inspector Ruth Estales who talked on Drugs and its Ill Effects and Parenting.*
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