COMPOSITION OF NAPOLCOM

1. One chairperson

2. Four regular commissioner

3. The Chief PNP as ex officio member

Note:

* shall serve a term of office of six (6) years

without reappointment or extension

* three of the four regular commissioners shall come

from civilian sector and not former members of the

police or military

* the fourth regular commissioner shall come from the

law enforcement sector either active or retired

* at least one (1) of the four regular commissioners

shall be a woman

* from among the three regular commissioners from

the civilian sector, the Vice Chairperson shall be

chosen

* the Vice Chairperson shall act as the Executive

Officer of the Commission

* refer to the organizational structure of the

NAPOLCOM

Important dates in the history of modern Philippine Policing

 1901 - ACT no. 175 of the Philippine Commission established the Philippine constabulary on august 8,

1901.

 1905 - the Philippine constabulary school was established at the sta.lucia barracks in Intramuros

on February 17, 1905.

 1908 - the Philippine constabulary school was transferred to Baguio City.

 1916 - the Philippine constabulary school was renamed academy for officers of the Philippine
constabulary.
 1917 - on December 17, 1917, Brigadier General Rafael Crame from Rizal Province, became the first

Filipino chief of the Philippine constabulary.

 1926 - the academy for officers of the Philippine constabulary was renamed Philippine Constabulary

Academy.

 1936 - the Philippine Constabulary Academy became the present day Philippine Military Academy.

 1938 - The Philippine Constabulary became the existing and organized national police force of the
country

pursuant to commonwealth act no. 343 dated June 23, 1938 and EO no. 389 dated December 23, 1950.
This

decree integrated local police forces into the Philippines constabulary operational and organizational set
up.

 1966 - congress enacted RA no. 4864, the police act of 1966. This law also created the Police
Commission

(POLCOM).

 1972 - The POLCOM was reorganized as the National Police Commission.

 1975 - PD 765 was enacted. This law is called the Police Integration Law of 1975. The Integrated
National

Police was established with the Philippine Constabulary as nucleus under the Department of national

Defense. The NAPOLCOM, originally under the office of the President was transferred to the Ministry of

National defense.

 1985 - The National Police Commission was returned to the office of the President pursuant to E.O
1040.

 1989 - Executive order 379 placed the Integrated national Police directly under the command,
supervision

and control of the President. This order vested the NAPOLCOM with the powers of administrative
control

and supervision over the Integrated National Police.

 1990 - RA 6975 was passed on December 13, 1990 establishing the Philippine National Police under a

reorganized Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). A new National Police
Commission

was created under the DILG.

 1998 - congress passed into law RA no. 8551 on February 25, 1998, otherwise known as the Philippine
National Police reform and reorganization act of 1998. This act strengthened and expanded
NAPOLCOM,s

authority over the PNP to include administration of police entrance examination and conduct pre-charge

investigation against police anomalies and irregularities and summary dismissal of erring police memb