RP-US narcs’ training set in Davao City

DAVAO CITY — The US Drug Enforcement Agency and its local counterpart, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, are set to hold the third "Baker Piston" joint training on combating illegal drugs here on May 8.

Wilkins Villanueva, the PDEA’s Southern Mindanao chief, said the four-week training will be attended by PDEA agents and 40 personnel of the Philippine National Police, Armed Forces, and National Bureau of Investigation.

Villanueva said the two previous "Baker Piston" training exercises resulted in the dismantling last year of a large-scale drug syndicate operating a major shabu laboratory in Southern Mindanao.

Similar Baker Piston exercises were also held in the cities of Baguio and Zamboanga.

The training here will be conducted at the regional training center of the Philippine Public Safety College in Barangay Mintal.