CEBU CITY -- A mandatory drug test was conducted among the 90 personnel of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) and one employee came out positive.
"During our mandatory drug testing in CPDRC last Saturday, one turned up positive of illegal drugs. He is a job order employee, but the result is still subject for confirmatory. We were able to test 90 personnel of CPDRC. I think everyone was there and only one tested positive," Cebu Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Office (CPADAO) chief Ivy Durano-Meca said Monday.
This was the first mandatory drug tests for CPDRC personnel. Last year, the CPADAO conducted drug tests on the inmates, but Meca said they have not yet decided on whether to carry out another testing this year, and this time they will include the management staff of the jail.
"That job order employee can be automatically dismissed, but I would suggest to Governor (Hilario) Davide (III) that we would just have that employee undergo a treatment and rehab program, wherein we can assess the extent of his drug dependency -- whether it is low risk or high risk," Meca added.
In an interview, Gov. Davide said he will recommend a rehabilitation program for the job order employee only this time.
“Our policy has always been to advise a job order employee to resign should he/she be found positive of drug use. Rehabilitation is only for regular and casual employees. But, for now, we will go easy on this one,” Davide said.
Meanwhile, several Local Government Units (LGU) have been requesting for drug tests on their employees.
“After we conducted drug tests in Oslob, Cebu, last week, we received lots of request from the different LGUs. The Municipal Government of Oslob, by the way, is negative of drugs," Meca said. (USJR intern Levirose Caballero/PNA)
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