Philippine National Police Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas | |
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Abbreviation | PNP |
Motto | To Serve and Protect. Service, Honor, Justice. |
Agency overview | |
Formed | January 29, 1991[1] |
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Annual budget | ₱193.24 billion (2023)[3] (US$3.92 billion) |
Jurisdictional structure | |
National agency | Philippines |
Operations jurisdiction | Philippines |
Operational structure | |
Headquarters | Camp Crame, Quezon City |
Police officers | 228,000 |
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Parent agency | Department of the Interior and Local Government via National Police Commission |
Website | |
pnp.gov.ph |
The Philippine National Police (Filipino: Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas, PNP) is the armed national police force in the Philippines. Its national headquarters is located at Camp Crame in Bagong Lipunan ng Crame, Quezon City. Currently, it has approximately 228,000 personnel to police a population in excess of 100 million.[4]
The agency 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 city or municipal mayors.[5] 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.[1]
Section 1. An Insular Constabulary is hereby established under the general supervision of the Civil Governor for the purpose of better maintaining peace, law, and order in the various provinces of the Philippine Islands, organized, officered and governed as hereinafter set forth, which shall be known as the Philippines Constabulary.
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