Cordillerans top PDEA recruits list nationwide

CAMP DANGWA, Benguet -- Forty four or 21 percent, the so-called “best” of the fifth batch of recruits who shall enter the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Academy at Silang, Cavite on Jan. 24 are from the Cordillera Administrative Region.

Emely Cayandag-Fama, information officer of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Cordillera bared thos saying the figure surpassed that of the National Capital Region, which came second with 39 successful recruits or 19 percent of 206, the total number.

Region V or the Bicol Region came third with 18 or 9%. Regions III (Central Luzon), VIII (Eastern Visayas) and XII (SOCCSKSARGEN) all came next with 14.

Region II (Cagayan Valley Region) followed with 11; then Regions IV-A (CALABARZON) and XI (Davao Region) with ten each; followed by Region VII (Central Visayas) with seven; Regions I (Ilocos Region) and X (Northern Mindanao) with six each; Region VI (Western Visayas) with five; and Region IV-B (MIMAROPA) with only four.

Thirty one of the 44 Cordillerans, who took oaths on Dec. 30 as the newest agents of the country’s lead drug law enforcement agency were men while the remaining 13 comprised the 24 percent of the national female population of the recruits.