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The Department of Justice (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Katarungan, abbreviated as DOJ) is under the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for upholding the rule of law in the Philippines. It is the government's principal law agency, serving as its legal counsel and prosecution arm. [2]
The Office of the Solicitor General of the Philippines (Filipino: Tanggapan ng Taga-usig Panlahat), formerly known as the Bureau of Justice, is an independent and autonomous office attached to the Department of Justice. The OSG is headed by Menardo Guevarra. The Office of the Solicitor General is the "law firm" of the Republic of the Philippines.
It is an attached agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ). It is led by the Chief Public Attorney Persida Acosta , [ 3 ] who was appointed to the position on February 23, 2001 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo .
Pages in category "Department of Justice (Philippines)" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Its history goes back to November 13, 1936, when a Division of Investigation (DI) under the Department of Justice was created with the enactment of Commonwealth Act No. 181 by the First National Assembly. Section 1, C.A. No. 181 provides: [1] A Division of Investigation under the Department of Justice is hereby created.
The secretary of justice (Filipino: kalihim ng katarungan) is the head of the Department of Justice and is a member of the president's Cabinet. [1] The current secretary is Jesus Crispin Remulla, who assumed office on June 30, 2022.
The National Prosecution Service is the official prosecutorial agency of the Philippines.Although it is an official prosecutorial agency, it is not autonomous from the Department of Justice unlike its counterparts such as the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, Bureau of Customs, Bureau of ...
New Bilibid Prison; the NBP Reservation houses the BuCor headquarters. The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor / ˈ b j ʊ. k ɔː r /; Filipino: Kawanihan ng Koreksiyon; [3] formerly the Bureau of Prisons from 1905 to 1989) is an agency of the Department of Justice which is charged with the custody and rehabilitation of national offenders, commonly known as Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL), who ...