A resolution urging the Bacolod City Police Office and the Department of Social Services and Development, to enforce a more aggressive campaign involving “rugby boys” in Bacolod was proposed by Councilor Em Ang.
           
It also urges the City Legal Office Enforcement Unit to ensure the strict implementation of City Ordinance No. 328, series of 2003, or “The rugby and other volatile substance ordinance of Bacolod City”.
           
The resolution said Lacson Street is a major business and tourism strip in Bacolod, where numerous businesses are located, and with busy vehicle and pedestrian traffic.

The “rugby boys” proliferate at Lacson Street, fronting the Capitol Lagoon, and are often seen publicly sniffing rugby, in full view of passersby and commuters, it added.

The resolution said CO 328 was passed on April 24, 2003, to strengthen the implementation of Presidential Decree 1619, or the law penalizing the use, possession or unauthorized sale to minors of volatile substances.

There is a steadily increasing and rampant use of rugby and other volatile substances by minors, in spite of the passage of City Ordinance 328, the resolution said.

It is imperative for the CLO Enforcement Unit to strictly implement the ordinance to promote and protect the physical, intellectual, social, moral and spiritual well-being of our youth, said Ang, who chairs the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Family and Child Care and Development, and the Committee on History, Culture, and Arts.*CGS

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