The passage into law on December 13, 1990 of Republic Act No.

6975 entitled
“An Act Establishing the Philippine National Police under a reorganized Department of
the Interior and Local Government and Other Purposes” ended the existence of the
Philippine Constabulary and the Integrated National Police and gave way to the creation
of the Philippine National Police, now known as the country's police force that is national
in scope and civilian in character. It is administered and controlled by the National
Police Commission.

With the affectivity of Republic Act No. 8551, otherwise known as the “Philippine
National Police Reform and Reorganization Act of 1998,” the PNP was envisioned to be
a community and service oriented Agency. As mandated by law, the PNP
activated/created the Internal Affairs Service (IAS) on a national scope on June 1, 1999.
It is an organization within the structure of the PNP and one of its tasks is to help the
Chief, PNP institute reforms to improve the image of the police force through
assessment, analysis and evaluation of the character and behavior of the PNP
Personnel. It is headed by the Inspector General.

OUR VISION

The Men and Women of the PNP is committed to a vision of a professional, dynamic
and highly motivated Philippine National Police working in partnership with a responsive
community towards the attainment of a safe place to live, work, invest and do business
with.

OUR MISSION

To enforce the law, to prevent and control crimes, to maintain peace and order, and to
ensure public safety and internal security with the active support of the community.

Our Funtions
Enforce all laws and ordinance relative to the protection of lives and Properties;

Maintain peace and order and take all necessary steps to ensure public safety;

Investigate and prevent crimes, effect the arrest of criminal offenders, bring offenders to
justice and assist in their prosecution;
Exercise the general powers to make arrest, search and seizure in accordance with the
Constitution and pertinent laws;

Detain an arrested person for a period not beyond what is prescribed by law, informing
the person so detained of all his rights under the Constitution;

Issue licenses for the possession of firearms and explosives in accordance with law;
Supervise and control the training and operations of security agencies and issue
licenses to operate security agencies, and to security guards and private detectives for
the practice of their professions; and,

Perform such other duties and exercise all other functions as may be provided by law.
Our mandate is to do so with efficient service, honor and justice, while at all times
conducting ourselves with the highest ethical standards to maintain public trust and
confidence.

OUR CORE VALUES

Police Officers Creed

I believe in God, the Supreme Being, the Great Provider, the Creator of all men and
everything dear to me
I Believe that respect for authority is a duty
I believe in selfless love and service to people
I believe in the sanctity of marriage and respect for women
I believe in the responsible dominion and stewardship over material things
I believe in the wisdom of truthfullness

OUR MOTTO " to serve and to protect"

COMMAND GROUP
Office of the Chief, PNP
Deputy Chief for Administration
Deputy Chief for Operations
Chief Directorial Staff

DIRECTORATES
Directorate for Personnel and Records Management
Directorate for Intelligence
Directorate for Operations
Directorate for Integrated Police Operations
Directorate for Logistics
Directorate for Plans
Directorate for Comptrollership
Directorate for Police Community Relations
Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management
Directorate for Human Resource and Doctrines Development
Directorate for Research and Development
Directorate for Information and Communications Tech MGMT

NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT UNITS

Logistics Support Service
Information Technology Mgmt Service
Finance Service
Health Service
Communications and Electronic Service
Chaplain Service
Legal Service
Headquarters Support Service
Engineering Service
Training Service

NATIONAL OPERATIONAL SUPPORT UNITS

Maritime Group
Intelligence Group
Police Security and Protection Group
Criminal Investigation and Detection Group
Special Action Force
Aviation Security Group
Highway Patrol Group
Police-Community Relations Group
Civil Security Group
Crime Laboratory
 The Philippine National Police (Filipino: Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas and
abbreviated as PNP) is the civilian national police force of the Philippines.
The PNP was formed on January 29, 1991 when the Philippine Constabulary and
the Integrated National Police were merged pursuant to Republic Act 6975, or the
Department of the Interior and Local Government Act of 1990.[1] It is part of
theDepartment of the Interior and Local Government. Its national headquarters is
at Camp Crame in Quezon City, Metro Manila, and it has 140,000 personnel.
It is administered and controlled by the National Police Commission.

Contents
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 1 History
 2 Organization
o 2.1 Criminal Investigation and Detection Group
o 2.2 Internal Affairs Service
o 2.3 Philippine National Police Academy
o 2.4 National Operations Center (NOC)
o 2.5 Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO)/ PNP Crime Lab
o 2.6 Police Regional Offices
 3 Officers
o 3.1 Recruitment and training
 4 Controversies
o 4.1 Manila blackmail incident
o 4.2 Euro Generals scandal
o 4.3 Parañaque shootout
o 4.4 Binayug torture case
o 4.5 Maguindanao massacre
o 4.6 Failed hostage rescue operation
o 4.7 "Wheel of Torture" secret detention facility
 5 See also
 6 References
 7 External links

History[edit]
Signal Corps started when Insular Police was organized in 1902 pursuant to Philippine
Commission Act 175. Executive Order 308 dated March 30, 1950 created the Philippine
Constabulary (PC) and the organization of PC Signal Corps was formalized on
September 1955 under the Office of the Constabulary Chief Signal Officer (OCCSO).
OCCSO was renamed Office of the Constabulary Chief Communications-Electronics
(OCC COMMEL) and the creation of Office of the Zone Chief Communications-
Electronics (OZCCE) for the four (4) PC zones.
OCC COMMEL was deactivated on August 16, 1978 and the PC/INP COMMEL Group,
COMMEL Support & Service Unit and the 13 COMMEL Regional Units were
constituted.
Philippine National Police was organized on January 1, 1991 pursuant to RA6975 and
PNP Communications and Electronics Service (PNPCES) was subsequently activated
to include the 17 Regional Communications and Electronics Offices (RCEOs).
Passed on December 13, 1990, the Republic Act No. 6975, the Department of the
Interior and Local Government Act of 1990, ended the existence of the Philippine
Constabularyand the Integrated National Police and gave way to the creation of the
Philippine National Police. R.A. 6975 was further amended by RA 8551, the Philippine
National Police Reform and Reorganization Act of 1998, and by RA 9708. The R.A.
8551 envisioned the PNP to be a community- and service-oriented agency.

Organization[edit]

Philippine National Police boat on the Iloilo River, Iloilo City

Regions of the Philippines
Within the PNP there are:[2]

 Aviation Security Group

 kayawaan group
 Special Action Force
 Program Management Office
 PNP Maritime Group
 PNP Intelligence Group
 PNP Regional Public Safety Battalion
 Police Security and Protection Group
 Anti-Cybercrime Group
 Police Community Relations Group
 Highway Patrol Group
 Civil Security Group
 Anti-kidnapping Group
Criminal Investigation and Detection Group[edit]
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group is a unit of the PNP that investigates
major crime of a national scope, espescially those crimes committed by national
criminal organizations
Internal Affairs Service[edit]
The PNP created a national Internal Affairs Service (IAS) on June 1, 1999. It is an
organization within the structure of the PNP and one of its tasks is to help the Chief
institute reforms to improve the image of the police force through assessment, analysis
and evaluation of the character and behavior of the PNP personnel. It is headed by the
Inspector General.
Philippine National Police Academy[edit]
Main article: Philippine National Police Academy
The Philippine National Police Academy is located at Camp Gen. Mariano N.
Castaneda, Silang, Cavite and is the premier training academy for the Philippine
National Police, Bureau of Jail Management & Penology and Bureau of Fire Protection.
National Operations Center (NOC)[edit]
The National Operations Center (NOC) is at Camp Crame. Chief Superintendent
Constante Azares Jr., chief of the PNP-NOC, explained that "the NOC is the hub and
nervethis facility."[3]
Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO)/ PNP Crime Lab
The PNP Crime lab, also known as the Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO) Division
is the primary forensics arm of the Philippine National Police. It provides forensic
pathology, ballistics, chemical analysis and criminal psychological services to all Law
Enforcement services in the Philippines, which includes the Bureau of Fire Protection,
and sometimes the Inspector General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and its
branches.
Police Regional Offices
Regional Police Offices manage and administer Police Stations within the
various regions of the Philippines, each of which include
several province and independent cities. Each unit exercises independent control over
all police units within their areas of operation and attached units of the PNP National
Headquarters ordered to assist these Regional Offices. The National Capital Region
Police Office is one such regional office.

Officers[edit]
Recruitment and training
Two members of the PNP rappel down a tower during a joint U.S.-AFP-PNP Subject
Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE).
The PNP conducts regular recruitment programs, depending on the annual budget. The
entry level for non-commissioned officers is the rank of Police Officer 1 or PO1. The
new recruits will undergo Public Safety Basic Recruit Course for six months, and a Field
Training Program for another six months. Prior for their actual duty, they are required to
undergo the mandatory special training of PNP SCOUT or PNP Special Counter-
insurgency Unit Training course for 45 days to 5 months to enhance them in
militaristic/tactics for future assignment in the field whether in the Striking Force or in the
Police Station.
Commissioned officers for the Philippine National Police are from the Philippine
National Police Academy as well as through "lateral entry" for specialized disciplines
and requirements such as criminologists in line-officers, lawyers, doctors,
engineers,chaplain and other technical positions and also the rose-from-the-rank
personnel who have reached the qualifications to be a commissioned officer.

Controversies[edit]
Manila blackmail incident[edit]
Further information: 1998 Manila blackmail incident
A blackmail case occurred in Binondo Manila when police officers abducted and
blackmailed seven Chinese citizens suspected of drug trafficking on December 30,
1998.[4] After many months of detainment and torture, two Hong Kong citizens were
killed off when the ransom money was not met.[5] One police superintendent who knew
of the operation was also killed.[4]
Euro Generals scandal[edit]
Further information: Euro Generals scandal
The Euro Generals scandal involves Eliseo de la Paz and several Philippine National
Police officials who went to Russia on October 2008 to attend the Interpol conference.
De la Paz was detained for carrying a large sum of undeclared money. A House panel
investigating the scandal concluded that the six police officials who attended the
conference had made the trip illegally.[6] In 2010, the Office of the Ombudsman filed
graft charges against twelve former and active ranking PNP officials for their alleged
involvement in the incident.[7][8]
Parañaque shootout[edit]
On December 5, 2008, ten suspected criminals, one policeman, and five civilians, a
total of sixteen people, including a seven-year-old girl, were killed in a bloody shootout
inParañaque. Several others were wounded, including a ranking officer of the Highway
Patrol Group, two members of the Special Action Force, a village watchman, and a
security guard, said Director Leopoldo Bataoil, head of the Metro Manila regional police.
The head of the Internal Affairs Service of the PNP said, "We failed in our mission to
protect the civilians. [Because] during the conduct of operation [many civilian lives were
lost],"[9] On July 29, 2009, it was reported that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had filed
multiple murder charges against 29 policemen, including three generals, in connection
with the shootout following the filing of a complaint-affidavit by Lilian de Vera, who lost
her husband and daughter, age seven, in the incident.[10] On January 11, 2010, the
Commission on Human Rights recommended the filing of criminal and administrative
charges against 26 policemen[11] In March, it was reported that after two witnesses had
said De Vera and his daughter were not killed in the shootout, that policemen already
had complete control of the area where the two were killed, the Department of Justice
filed two counts of murder charges against 25 policemen for the killings. [12]
Binayug torture case[edit]
Inspector Joselito Binayug, chief of the Asuncion police community precinct in Tondo
arrested Darius Evangelista on March 5, 2009 for alleged robbery. A torture video was
leaked to the media and shown on television showing a police officer whipping and
cursing the suspect and pulling on a rope that was tied to the victim’s genitals. The
incident allegedly happened inside the Asuncion police precinct in Tondo. Binayug was
arrested for violating the Anti-Torture act of 2009. Separate charges were filed for
Evangelista being tortured to death.[13][14]
Maguindanao massacre[edit]
Main article: Maguindanao massacre
On November 24, 2009, Senior Superintendent Abusana Maguid, the police chief of
Maguindanao province, was reported to have been relieved of his duties after witnesses
reported seeing three of his officers at the scene of the Maguindanao massacre in
which 57 people, including journalists, lawyers, aides, and motorists who were
witnesses were killed.[15] On November 25 Maguid and Chief Inspector Sukarno Dikay
were reported to have been relieved from post and placed under restrictive
custody.[16] On November 26,Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)
Secretary Ronaldo Puno announced that Maguid, Dikay, and others were suspected of
involvement in the massacre.[17]On December 19, Maguid, Dikay, and others were
reported to have been recommended for summary dismissal by the PNP high
command.[18] On April 16, 2010, the National Police Commission ordered a 90-day
suspension against Maguid, Dikay, and 60 other police personnel for their possible
involvement in the killings.[19] On July 10, it was reported that Dikay had applied to
become state witness, saying that he is confident that his testimony will pin down the
masterminds of the killing.[20]
Failed hostage rescue operation[edit]
Further information: Manila hostage crisis
The Philippine National Police conceded that in the 2010 Manila hostage crisis they
made blunders in ending a bus hijacking, as outrage grew over the bloody assault
played out on live television that left eight Hong Kong tourists dead. The Hong Kong
Economic Journal was reported to have accused the PNP of having an "appalling
professional standards" and "...[a] lack of strategic planning".[21]
"Wheel of Torture" secret detention facility[edit]
The Philippine Commission on Human Rights filed charges against ten police officers
after it was discovered that they routinely tortured detainees inside a secret detention
facility in Biñan, Laguna. The facility was maintained by the PNP Provincial Intelligence
Branch (PIB) to extract confessions or information from detainees, or to extort money
from them in exchange for being charged with lighter offenses or the dropping of the
charges altogether. It was also alleged that some "were tortured for the police officers’
amusement" when they're intoxicated. The facility is notorious for utilizing a roulette
called the "Wheel of Torture", a modified version of the "Wheel of Fortune", where
various torture methods were printed. The wheel is rotated and wherever the pin stops,
the indicated torture method is perpetrated on the detainee.[22][23]
The torture methods included, a 20-second Manny Pacman punch, named after the
famous boxer Manny Pacquiao, where the detainee is beaten for 20 seconds; "Paniki"
which means being hung like a bat; "Tusok ulo ka" which means being pierced through
the head; "Zombies" which means being electrocuted; and other degrading tasks like
"duck walk" and "ferris wheel".[23][24]
Philippines[edit]
Main article: Philippine National Police § Ranks
The following ranks are observed in the PNP as of 2009 with the following: [12]
Commissioned officers

 Director General (DGen.) - General Director

 Deputy Director General (DDG) - Lieutenant General
 Director (Dir.) - Major General
 Chief Superintendent (C/Supt.) - Brigadier General
 Senior Superintendent (S/Supt.) - Colonel
 Superintendent (Supt.) - Lieutenant Colonel
 Chief Inspector (C/Insp.) - Major
 Senior Inspector (S/Insp.) - Captain
 Inspector (Insp.) - Lieutenant
Note: Rank in Italics is the Army equivalent. There is no Second Lieutenant rank-
equivalent in the PNP.
Non-commissioned officers

 Senior Police Officer IV (SPO4) - Senior Master Sergeant / Chief Master Sergeant
 Senior Police Officer III (SPO3) - Master Sergeant
 Senior Police Officer II (SPO2) - Technical Sergeant
 Senior Police Officer I (SPO1) - Staff Sergeant
 Police Officer III (PO3) - Sergeant
 Police Officer II (PO2) - Corporal
 Police Officer I (PO1) - Private First Class
Note: Rank in Italics is the Army equivalent. There is no Private rank-equivalent in the
PNP.