 He established the Bring-A-Friend Project, which worked for the voluntary submission of drug dependents for rehabilitation.It was also during his tenure as Interior and Local Government Secretary when he founded the "Barangay at Pulisya Laban sa Krimen" (BPLK) Program whose main purpose was to enlist the cooperation and active participation of the civilian population in the fight against criminality.Barbers was named by the Social Weather Station (SWS) survey as the most effective, most efficient, and most popular Cabinet member of the Ramos administration five consecutive times.