DAVAO CITY, Philippines (UPDATE) - Police arrested 29 people in raids conducted in shabu markets in 2 barangays in Davao City, Saturday morning.

Senior Superintendent Generoso Bonifacio, chief of the Davao regional police's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), started the raids in barangays 31-D and 76-A around 6 a.m..

Bonifacio said they were able to initially round up 24 suspected shabu runners, who were caught loitering around the barangays during the raid.

Five drug dealers, four of them women, whose houses were subjects of search warrants were also arrested.

Another suspected drug dealer, identified only as alias Samad, was able to elude arrest.

Bonifacio said the suspects' houses yielded several sachets of shabu with a street value of P500,000.

He added that the operatives also dug up a total of P21,000 cash from the suspected drug dealers' houses.

Bonifacio said the raid was a product of months-long of monitoring, which was ordered by Vice-Mayor Rodrigo Duterte while he was still the city mayor. -- Report from Mikael Aparri, ABS-CBN Davao