1st MADAC (Municipal Anti-Drug Abuse Council) meeting for 2017
During the meeting Asingan Pangasinan Mayor Heidee Chua happily announced that 14 out of 21 barangays have been officially cleared of illegal drugs as of December 2016.
PCI Junmar Gonzales, Chief of Police Asingan, said two more barangays are now subjects of clearing operations and may be declared drug-free in the next few days of 2017.

The parameters for attaining a drug-cleared status in the barangay is the non-availability of drug supply; absence of drug transit or transshipment activity; absence of clandestine drug laboratory; absence of the clandestine drug warehouse; absence of clandestine chemical warehouse; absence of the marijuana cultivation site; and absence of drug den, dive or resort.