EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 847 - CREATING A DRUGS INTELLIGENCE COORDINATING COMMITTEE

WHEREAS, the current intensified government drive against drug abuse has necessitated the participation of many government agencies whose perspectives and approaches to the drug problem differ from one another;

WHEREAS, the success of the government’s drug campaign demands the integrated and cooperative efforts of these government agencies in order to bring about a rational and uniform national strategy against drug abuse;

WHEREAS, such unified and concerted efforts can best be achieved by promoting and facilitating the exchange of intelligence between such government agencies and coordinating and focusing their efforts towards the attainment of their common objectives; and 

WHEREAS, the National Intelligence Board under the Office of the President is the proper forum where such intelligence can be collected, evaluated and disseminated and it is best equipped to handle the coordination aspect of the government’s drug campaign;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. There is hereby created a committee, under the National Intelligence Board of the Office of the President, to be known as the Drugs Intelligence Coordinating Committee, hereinafter referred to as the Committee, to be composed of the following:

The Chairman, National Intelligence
 Board    Chairman
The Administrator, Food and Drugs
Administration Member
The Executive Director, Dangerous
Drugs Board Member
The Commanding General, Constabulary
Anti-Narcotics Unit  Member
The Director, National Bureau of
 Investigation. Member
The Commissioner, Finance Ministry
Intelligence Bureau  Member
The Director, Bureau of Foreign
Students and Youth Affairs  Member
Representative of the Minister of Social
Services and Development   Member
Representative of the Minister of Local
Government  Member
The Chairman, Coordinating Committee
on Operations/Director, Operations
Control Division, NISA Member
The Chief, Drugs Intelligence Group,
Operations Control
Division, NISA  Secretary General