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[email protected] pdea.gov.ph PDEA Top Stories PDEA@PdeaTopStories pdeatopstories PDEA REGIONAL OFFICE IV-A OFFICE PROFILE The PDEA Regional Office IV-A, or PDEA RO IV-A, is among the Agency’s 18 regional offices nationwide, which has primary operational control, supervision and jurisdiction in Southern Luzon covering five provinces namely: Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon (CALABARZON) CALABARZON is formally known as Southern Tagalog Mainland and designated as Region IV-A. It has a total land area of 16,873.31 km or 6,514.82 sq m. Based from 2015 census, its total population is 14,414,774 and has a density of 850/km or 2,200/sq m. It is composed of five (5) provinces, 19 cities, 124 municipalities, 4,011 barangays and 19 congressional districts. After the enactment of Republic Act No. 9165 in July 2002, the PDEA RO IV-A office was housed at the PNP Regional Office IV-A, Camp Vicente Lim, Calamba City, Laguna. As a Regional Office (RO), it has the following functions: - Implement anti-drug policies, programs and projects. - Conduct anti-drug operations, neutralize drug personalities, file cases of arrested personalities, conduct casing and surveillance operations and information campaign. - Monitor all the activities of drug personalities listed in the watch list within the region and report progress to the national office; monitor the status of drug cases.