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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1435 -
DIRECTING ALL CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO GET INVOLVED AND
PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY IN THE NON-MILITARY ASPECTS OF COUNTERINSURGENCY
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Municipal and Barangay Governments; and Chiefs of Government Instrumentalities
In view of the critical role of civilian officials in counterinsurgency operations, especially in the rural areas where the presence and influence of government are most needed, and in view of the urgency to strengthen and enhance the confidence of the citizenry in the government, all civilian government officials, whether, national, regional or local, are hereby directed to get involved and actively participate in the non-military aspects of counterinsurgency operations consistent with their respective functions and capabilities.
This said involvement may be in the nature of the following activities, among others:
1.
Providing necessary leadership to the people and inspiring them to
resist insurgent incursion to their community;
2. Giving
priority attention, in the delivery of services, to critical areas
determined in consultation with the military;
3. Maintaining
close liaison with military units in said critical areas for the
purpose of providing to the latter some technical advice and
determining appropriate support to the combined security and
development operations;
4.
Participating actively in the activities of the Regional Development
Council, Presidential Regional Monitoring Office, and Peace and Order
Council, particularly as regards combined security and development
operations;
5. Conducting
periodic visitations to the barangays, especially those in the
hinterlands, and holding pulung-pulong or consultation with the people
either independently of or jointly with the military;
6. Providing
information to the military pertinent to the conduct of combined
security and development operations; and
7. Conducting
studies; providing technical advices and making surveys pertaining to
the problems of the people, particularly those in the remote areas,
geared towards the improvement of their social, economic, and political
conditions, such as looking for appropriate crop substitutes to be
planted in former marijuana plantations.
Relatedly, The Secretariat of the Security Council of the New Society shall prepare a national plan to effect closer relations between the military and civilian sectors and to further integrate security and development efforts of government including, among others, mobilization of resources in times of emergency.
Likewise, the National Economic and Development Authority shall include in the national and regional development plans some portions pertaining to the relationship between security and development.
Respective heads of agencies and local governments shall issue their implementing instructions to insure that their subordinate officials comply with this directive.
Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-four.
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