Support for Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency

Executive Order No. 218 is grounded on the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 (Republic Act No. 9165), which created the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
Republic Act No. 9165 establishes the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) as the policy-making and strategy-formulating body for drug prevention and control.
Republic Act No. 9165 abolishes the drug enforcement units of the PNP, the National Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Customs.
Republic Act No. 9165 directs that personnel of abolished units shall continue performing their tasks as detail service with the PDEA until the PDEA is fully operational and can recruit sufficient new personnel.
Executive Order No. 218 recognizes PDEA’s transition period and its need to build institutional capabilities to carry out its mandated enforcement role.

Executive Order No. 218 provides for support mechanisms to pursue a forceful, intensive and unrelenting campaign against drug trafficking and illegal drug use.
The mechanism is designed to help PDEA fulfill its mandated enforcement responsibilities during its transition toward full operational capacity.
Executive Order No. 218 authorizes coordination with other government agencies that previously performed drug law enforcement and prevention functions.

Section 1 requires the Office of the President, the PNP, and other agencies that were performing drug law enforcement and prevention functions prior to Republic Act No. 9165 to organize anti-drug task forces to support the PDEA.
The task forces are established specifically as support to the PDEA.

Section 2 mandates that the PDEA shall exercise operational supervision and provide technical support to the main task force created by the PNP.
Section 2 directs that for other task forces created within the PNP or other agencies, the President of the Philippines determines whether the DDB or the PDEA exercises operational supervision.
Section 2 links operational supervision allocation to the President’s determination for task forces other than the PNP main task force.

Section 3 provides that funds for task force operations shall come from the mother agencies creating the task force.
Section 3 provides that funds shall also come from the gross receipts of lotto operations.
Section 3 orders the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office to create a standby fund amounting to One Billion Pesos (P1,000,000,000.00).
The standby fund is created to fund the operations of the PDEA and the task forces supporting it.

Section 4 repeals Executive Order No. 206 dated May 15, 2003.
Section 4 repeals or modifies all orders, rules, regulations, issuances, or parts thereof that are inconsistent with Executive Order No. 218.