The Philippine National Police (Filipino: Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas and abbreviated

as PNP) is the civilian national police force of the Philippines.

The PNP was formed on January 29, 1991 when the Philippine Constabulary and the Integrated
National Police were merged pursuant toRepublic Act 6975, or the Department of the Interior and
Local Government Act of 1990.
[1]
It is part of the Department of the Interior and Local Government.
Its national headquarters is at Camp Crame in Quezon City, Metro Manila, and it has 140,000
personnel.
It is administered and controlled by the National Police Commission.
Passed on December 13, 1990, the Republic Act No. 6975, the Department of the Interior and
Local Government Act of 1990, ended the existence of the Philippine Constabulary and
the Integrated National Police and gave way to the creation of the Philippine National Police.
R.A. 6975 was further amended by RA 8551, the Philippine National Police Reform and
Reorganization Act of 1998, and by RA 9708. The R.A. 8551 envisioned
tOrganization[edit]

Philippine National Police boat on the Iloilo River, Iloilo City
The PNP has the following branches included the following organizations"
[2]

Aviation Security Group
Special Action Force
Program Management Office
PNP Maritime Group
PNP Intelligence Group
PNP Regional Public Safety Battalion
Police Security and Protection Group
Anti-Cybercrime Group
Police Community Relations Group
Highway Patrol Group
Civil Security Group
Anti-kidnapping Group
Criminal Investigation and Detection Group[edit]
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group is a unit of the PNP that investigates major crime of
a national scope, espescially those crimes committed by national criminal organizations
Internal Affairs Service[edit]
The PNP created a national Internal Affairs Service (IAS) on June 1, 1999. It is an organization
within the structure of the PNP and one of its tasks is to help the Chief institute reforms to improve
the image of the police force through assessment, analysis and evaluation of the character and
behavior of the PNP personnel. It is headed by the Inspector General.
Philippine National Police Academy[edit]
Main article: Philippine National Police Academy
The Philippine National Police Academy is located at Camp Gen. Mariano N. Castaneda, Silang,
Cavite and is the premier training academy for the Philippine National Police, Bureau of Jail
Management & Penology and Bureau of Fire Protection.
National Operations Center (NOC)[edit]
The National Operations Center (NOC) is at Camp Crame. Chief Superintendent Constante Azares
Jr., chief of the PNP-NOC, explained that "the NOC is the hub and nervethis facility."
[3]

Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO)/ PNP Crime Lab[edit]
The PNP Crime lab, also known as the Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO) Division is the
primary forensics arm of the Philippine National Police. It provides forensic pathology, ballistics,
chemical analysis and criminal psychological services to all Law Enforcement services in the
Philippines, which includes the Bureau of Fire Protection, and sometimes the Inspector General of
the Armed Forces of the Philippines and its branches.
Police Regional Offices[edit]
Regional Police Offices manage and administer Police Stations within the various regional areas of
the Philippines. Each unit exercises independent control over all police units within their areas of
operation and attached units of the PNP National Headquarters ordered to assist these Regional
Offices.

Badge of the Philippine National Police.
National Capital Region Police Office
Police Regional Office I
Police Regional Office II
Police Regional Office III
Police Regional Office IVA
Police Regional Office IVB
Police Regional Office V
Police Regional Office VI
Police Regional Office VII
Police Regional Office VIII
Police Regional Office IX
Police Regional Office X
Police Regional Office XI
Police Regional Office XII
Police Regional Office - ARMM
Police Regional Office - CARAGA
Officers[edit]
Recruitment and training[edit]
Two members of the PNP rappel down a tower during a joint U.S.-AFP-PNP Subject Matter Expert Exchange
(SMEE).
The PNP conducts regular recruitment programs, depending on the annual budget. The entry level
for non-commissioned officers is the rank of Police Officer 1 or PO1. The new recruits will undergo
Public Safety Basic Recruit Course for six months, and a Field Training Program for another six
months. Prior for their actual duty, they are required to undergo the mandatory special training of
PNP SCOUT or PNP Special Counter-insurgency Unit Training course for 45 days to 5 months to
enhance them in militaristic/tactics for future assignment in the field whether in the Striking Force or
in the Police Station.
Commissioned officers for the Philippine National Police are from the Philippine National Police
Academy as well as through "lateral entry" for specialized disciplines and requirements such as
criminologists in line-officers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, nurse, chaplain and other technical
positions and also the rose-from-the-rank personnel who have reached the qualifications to be a
commissioned officer.
Controversies[edit]
Manila blackmail incident[edit]
Further information: 1998 Manila blackmail incident
A blackmail case occurred in Binondo Manila when police officers abducted and blackmailed
seven Chinese citizens suspected of drug trafficking on December 30, 1998.
[4]
After many months of
detainment and torture, two Hong Kongcitizens were killed off when the ransom money was not
met.
[5]
One police superintendent who knew of the operation was also killed.
[4]

Euro Generals scandal[edit]
Further information: Euro Generals scandal
The Euro Generals scandal involves Eliseo de la Paz and several Philippine National Police officials
who went to Russia on October 2008 to attend the Interpol conference. De la Paz was detained for
carrying a large sum of undeclared money. A House panel investigating the scandal concluded that
the six police officials who attended the conference had made the trip illegally.
[6]
In 2010, the Office
of the Ombudsman filed graft charges against twelve former and active ranking PNP officials for their
alleged involvement in the incident.
[7][8]

Paraaque shootout[edit]
On December 5, 2008, ten suspected criminals, one policeman, and five civilians, a total of sixteen
people, including a seven year old girl, were killed in a bloody shootout in Paraaque. Several others
were wounded, including a ranking officer of the Highway Patrol Group, two members of the Special
Action Force, a village watchman, and a security guard, said Director Leopoldo Bataoil, head of the
Metro Manila regional police. The head of the Internal Affairs Service of the PNP said, "We failed in
our mission to protect the civilians. [Because] during the conduct of operation [many civilian lives
were lost],"
[9]
On July 29, 2009, it was reported that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had filed multiple
murder charges against 29 policemen, including three generals, in connection with the shootout
following the filing of a complaint-affidavit by Lilian de Vera, who lost her husband and daughter, age
seven, in the incident.
[10]
On January 11, 2010, the Commission on Human Rights recommended the
filing of criminal and administrative charges against 26 policemen
[11]
In March, it was reported that
after two witnesses had said De Vera and his daughter were not killed in the shootout,that policemen
already had complete control of the area where the two were killed, the Department of Justice filed
two counts of murder charges against 25 policemen for the killings.
[12]

Binayug torture case[edit]
Inspector Joselito Binayug, chief of the Asuncion police community precinct in Tondo arrested
Darius Evangelista on March 5, 2009 for alleged robbery. A torture video was leaked to the media
and shown on television showing a police officer whipping and cursing the suspect and pulling on a
rope that was tied to the victims genitals. The incident allegedly happened inside the Asuncion
police precinct in Tondo. Binayug was arrested for violating the Anti-Torture act of 2009. Separate
charges were filed for Evangelista being tortured to death.
[13][14]

Maguindanao massacre[edit]
Main article: Maguindanao massacre
On November 24, 2009, Senior Superintendent Abusana Maguid, the police chief of Maguindanao
province, was reported to have been relieved of his duties after witnesses reported seeing three of
his officers at the scene of the Maguindanao massacre in which 57 people, including journalists,
lawyers, aides, and motorists who were witnesses were killed.
[15]
On November 25 Maguid and Chief
Inspector Sukarno Dikay were reported to have been relieved from post and placed under restrictive
custody.
[16]
On November 26, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)
Secretary Ronaldo Punoannounced that Maguid, Dikay, and others were suspected of involvement
in the massacre.
[17]
On December 19, Maguid, Dikay, and others were reported to have been
recommended for summary dismissal by the PNP high command.
[18]
On April 16, 2010, the National
Police Commission ordered a 90-day suspension against Maguid, Dikay, and 60 other police
personnel for their possible involvement in the killings.
[19]
On July 10, it was reported that Dikay had
applied to become state witness, saying that he is confident that his testimony will pin down the
masterminds of the killing.
[20]

Failed hostage rescue operation[edit]
Further information: 2010 Manila hostage crisis
The Philippine National Police conceded that in the 2010 Manila hostage crisis they made blunders
in ending a bus hijacking, as outrage grew over the bloody assault played out on live television that
left eight Hong Kong tourists dead. TheHong Kong Economic Journal was reported to have accused
the PNP of having an "appalling professional standards" and "...[a] lack of strategic planning".
[21]

"Wheel of Torture" secret detention facility[edit]
The Philippine Commission on Human Rights filed charges against ten police officers after it was
discovered that they routinely tortured detainees inside a secret detention facility in Bian, Laguna.
The facility was maintained by the PNP Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB) to extract confessions or
information from detainees, or to extort money from them in exchange for being charged with lighter
offenses or the dropping of the charges altogether. It was also alleged that some "were tortured for
the police officers amusement" when they're intoxicated. The facility is notorious for utilizing a
roulette called the "Wheel of Torture", a modified version of the "Wheel of Fortune", where various
torture methods were printed. The wheel is rotated and wherever the pin stops, the indicated torture
method is perpetrated on the detainee.
[22][23]

The torture methods included, a 20-second Manny Pacman punch, named after the famous boxer
Manny Pacquiao, where the detainee is beaten for 20 seconds; "Paniki" which means being hung
like a bat; "Tusok ulo ka" which means being pierced through the head; "Zombies" which means
being electrocuted; and other degrading tasks like "duck walk" and "ferris wheel".
[23][24]

List of chiefs[edit]

Alan La Madrid Purisima
# Name
Term of Office
Start End
1 PDG.Cesar P. Nazareno
[25]
March 31, 1991 August 28, 1992
2 PDG Raul S. Imperial
[25]
August 28, 1992 May 6, 1993
3 PDG Umberto Rodriguez
[25]
May 6, 1993 July 8, 1994
4 PDG Recaredo Arevalo Sarmiento, II
[25]
July 8, 1994 1997
5 PDG Santiago L. Alio
[26]
1997 1998
6 PDG Roberto T. Lastimoso
[26]
1998 1999
7 PDG Edmundo L. Larroza
[26]
1999 (acting) 1999
8 PDG Panfilo M. Lacson MGM
[26]
November 1999 January 2001
10 PDG Hermogenes E. Ebdane, Jr(Phd).
[27]
July 2002 August 23, 2004
11 PDG Edgar B. Aglipay
[27][28]
August 23, 2004 March 6, 2005
12 PDG Arturo Lomibao
[28][29]
March 13, 2005 August 29, 2006
13 PDG Oscar C. Calderon
[29][30]
August 29, 2006 October 1, 2007
14 PDG Avelino I. Razon Jr.
[30]
October 1, 2007 September 27, 2008
15 PDG Jesus A. Versosa
[31]
September 27, 2008 September 14, 2010
16 PDG Raul Macalalad Bacalzo(Phd) September 14, 2010 September 8, 2011
17 PDG Nicanor Ancheta Bartolome September 8, 2011 December 17, 2012
18 PDG Alan La Madrid Purisima(Phd)

he PNP to be a community and service oriented Agency.