Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Isidro Lapeña leads a command conference with regional officials to discuss the agency’s takeover of anti-illegal drug operations from the Philippine National Police. President Rodrigo Duterte has barred the police and the National Bureau of Investigation from drug raids following the death of a Korean businessman at the hands of law enforcers.

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