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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 689 -
DIRECTING THE REGIONALIZATION OF THE PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY AND THE
INTEGRATED NATIONAL POLICE |
Department of National Defense
The Chief of Staff
Armed Forces of the Philippines
The Chief of Constabulary and
Director General, Integrated National Police
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 742, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 824, prescribes the regional groupings into which the various provinces of the country are to be organized in relation to Presidential Decree No. 1 which was promulgated to effect administrative reforms in the government machinery;
WHEREAS, the accelerated development of the countryside continues to be the primary program of the government to provide a better quality of life for our people;
WHEREAS, it is necessary that more effective and more responsive public safety services be extended to our people under such regional groupings by the Philippine Constabulary which is a Major Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and is also the nucleus of the Integrated National Police pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 765;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, in the interest of improved law enforcement and public safety services, do hereby direct:
1.
The activation of thirteen (13) Philippine Constabulary Regional
Commands the territorial boundaries of which shall conform with the
regional organization prescribed under Presidential Decree 742,
provided that the sub-province of Aurora shall be included in Region 2.
2. The phasing
out of the four (4) Philippine Constabulary Zones not later than August
8, 1978.
3. The
activation, simultaneously, of thirteen (13) Integrated National Police
Regional Commands which shall be co-extensive with the above-mentioned
Philippine Constabulary Regional Commands.
4. That no
additional funds be released by the National Government to support this
activity except those provided for in Presidential Decree No. 1250,
otherwise known as the Appropriations Act of 1978 and that no increase
in personnel be involved.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 11th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.
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