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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1160 |
The Minister of Local Governments and Community
Development
The Chief of Staff, AFP
The Chief of Constabulary and Director General of
the Integrated National Police
All Provincial Governors and City and Municipal
Mayors Other National and Regional, Provincial, City
and Municipal Officials concerned.
1.
In order to avoid undue alarm and adverse public criticism arising out
of seeing many armed men accompanying government officials, all members
of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Integrated
National Police (INP) are hereby prohibited from acting as bodyguards
to any person unless otherwise cleared by the President or the Minister
of National Defense to perform duty as security to a person whose life
is endangered.
2. Any
commander or member of the AFP and the INP found circumventing this
prohibition and violating existing policies, rules and regulations
promulgated by the Ministry of National Defense on this subject matter
shall be dealt with severely.
3. All
officials of the Government are enjoined to respect this policy and to
cooperate with military and police authorities in eliminating this
malpractice.
4. The
Minister of National Defense shall insure the compliance of these
instructions.
Done in the City of Manila, this 31st day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-one.
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