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Philippinen. In Payatas, police do house-to-house drug testing

What would you do if a group of policemen showed up at your doorstep and asked you to pee into a plastic cup for an on-the-spot drug test that could reveal whether or not you had taken shabu or marijuana in the last seven days? 

That is the question residents of Lupang Pangako in Barangay Payatas have been grappling with since June when groups of policemen started going house-to-house, armed with do-it-yourself drug testing kits that show, within seconds, that a person is either positive or negative for the use of those banned substances. (ABS-CBN, 21.08.2017)

http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/08/20/17/in-payatas-police-do-house-to-house-drug-testing