Philippine National Police
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Philippine National Police Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas |
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| Abbreviation | PNP |
Insignia of the Philippine National Police
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| Motto | "To Serve and to Protect" |
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| Formed |
August 18, 1901 (as Philippine Constabulary) January 29, 1991 (merged into PNP) |
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| Annual budget | US$ 1.832 billion (₱ 88.513 billion) (2016) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| National agency | Philippines |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Camp Crame, Quezon City |
| Agency executive |
Police Dir. Ronald dela Rosa, Director-General/Chief PNP |
| Parent agency | Department of Interior and Local Government via National Police Commission |
| Website | |
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August 18, 1901 (as Philippine Constabulary)
The Philippine National Police (Filipino: Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas and abbreviated as PNP) is the armed, civilian national police force of the Philippines. Its national headquarters is at Camp Crame in Quezon City, Metro Manila, and it has 160,000 personnel.
It is administered and controlled by the National Police Commission and is part of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). Local Police officers are operationally controlled by municipal mayors (except during the 30 days immediately preceding and following any national, local and barangay elections. During these periods, the local police forces are under the supervision and control of the Commission on Elections). DILG, on the other hand, organizes, trains and equips the PNP for the performance of police functions as a police force that is national in scope and civilian in character.
The PNP was formed on January 29, 1991 when the Philippine Constabulary and the Integrated National Police were merged pursuant to Republic Act 6975 of 1990.
The common history of the police forces of the Philippines can be traced back to the reigns of the pre-Hispanic lakans, datus and sultans in the islands, where soldiers who served in the communities where the people lived (and which reported directly to local leaders) also enforced local laws. All changed with the arrival of the Spanish rule and the introduction of Western law to the archipelago. Until 1868, personnel of the Spanish army and local militias were also tasked with policing duties in local communities, together with the Island Carabiniers (raised 1768 and the colony's first ever police service). In that year, the local branch of the Civil Guard was officially established by order of then Governor-General Carlos María de la Torre y Nava Cerrada. Starting from a single division, during the Revolutionary period it grew into a corps of military police with detachments in Luzon and the Visayas, and was notorious for its abuses against Filipinos. (These abuses were mentioned in José Rizal's two novels, Noli Me Tángere and El filibusterismo, both writing about several cases of Civil Guardsmen abusing the local populace.)
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