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The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is the lead anti-drug law enforcement agency in the Philippines, responsible for preventing, investigating and combating illegal drugs. PDEA enforces Republic Act No. 9165, also known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. PDEA and the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB), the policy-making body on drug prevention and control, both report to the Office of the President. The enactment of the 2002 law reorganized the drug enforcement system, creating PDEA while maintaining the DDB, and abolished previous task forces, instead forming new task forces between the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation, and Bureau of Customs to support P

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Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is the lead anti-drug law enforcement agency in the Philippines, responsible for preventing, investigating and combating illegal drugs. PDEA enforces Republic Act No. 9165, also known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. PDEA and the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB), the policy-making body on drug prevention and control, both report to the Office of the President. The enactment of the 2002 law reorganized the drug enforcement system, creating PDEA while maintaining the DDB, and abolished previous task forces, instead forming new task forces between the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation, and Bureau of Customs to support P

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Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA Ahensiya ng Pilipinas sa Pagpapatupad ng


Batas Laban sa Bawal na Gamot ) is the lead anti-drug law enforcement agency, responsible
for preventing, investigating and combating any dangerous drugs,
controlled precursors and essential chemicals within the Philippines. The agency is tasked
with the enforcement of the penal and regulatory provisions of Republic Act No. 9165 (R.A. 9165),
otherwise known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
PDEA is the implementing arm of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB). The DDB is the policy-
making and strategy-formulating body in the planning and formulation of policies and programs on
drug prevention and control. PDEA and DDB are both under the supervision of the Office of the
President of the Philippines.

History and mandate

For thirty years, the Republic Act No. 6425, or the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972, had been the
backbone of the drug law enforcement system in the Philippines. Despite the efforts of various
law enforcement agencies mandated to implement the law, the drug problem alarmingly escalated
with orbiting Police Officers collecting drug money. The high profitability of the illegal drug trade,
compounded by the then existing laws that imposed relatively light penalties to offenders, greatly
contributed to the gravity of the problem.

Republic Act No. 9165


Recognizing the need to further strengthen existing laws governing Philippine drug law
enforcement system, the then Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed the
Republic Act No. 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, on June 7, 2002,
and it took effect on July 4, 2002. The R.A. 9165 defines more concrete courses of action for the
national anti-drug campaign and imposes heavier penalties to offenders.
The enactment of R.A. 9165 reorganized the Philippine drug law enforcement system. While
the Dangerous Drugs Board remains as the policy-making and strategy-formulating body in planning
and formulation of policies and program on drug control and prevention, it created the Philippine
Drug Enforcement Agency under the Office of the President.
Creation of task forces
The R.A. 9165 abolished the National Drug Law Enforcement and Prevention Coordinating Center,
which was created under Executive Order No. 61, and the Narcotics Group of Philippine National
Police (PNP-NG), Narcotics Division of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI-ND), and the Customs
Narcotics Interdiction Unit of the Bureau of Customs (BOC-CNIU).
Under Executive Order No.206 dated May 15, 2003, these law enforcement agencies have
organized the following anti-illegal drugs task force to support the PDEA:

 Philippine National Police – Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operation Task Force (PNP-AIDSOTF);
 National Bureau of Investigation – Anti-Illegal Drugs Task Force (NBI-AIDTF);
 Bureau of Customs – Customs Task Group/Force in Dangerous Drugs and Controlled
Chemicals (BOC-CTGFDDCC).

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