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Two Constables posing for a photo in the New York Tribune in 1905. Philippine Constabulary in 1910. The Philippine Constabulary (PC) was established on August 18, 1901, under the general supervision of the civil Governor-General of the Philippines, by the authority of Act. No. 175 of the Second Philippine Commission, to maintain peace, law, and order in the various provinces of the Philippine ...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines were created as a result of the Commonwealth Act No. 1, also known as the National Defense Act of 1935. However, the origin of the organization can be traced back to the establishment of the Philippine Constabulary , armed Filipino forces organized in 1901 by the United States to combat the Philippine ...
This act provided for the creation, by 1946, via an annual appropriation of 16,000,000 pesos, of the following forces: A regular army force of 10,000 troops (formed largely from the Philippine Scouts and the Philippine Constabulary) A reserve army of 400,000; The Offshore Patrol, which was to possess 36 torpedo boats
The National Assembly of the Philippines' first act was the passage of the National Defense Act on December 21, 1935, with initial plans for a 10,000-man regular force based on the incorporation of the Philippine Constabulary, a 400,000-man reserve force by 1946.
In accordance with the National Defense Act of 1935, the Armed Forces of the Philippines was officially established on December 21, 1935, when the act entered into force. [15] Retired U.S. General Douglas MacArthur was asked to supervise its foundation and training.
With this act, the AFP was officially established. The development of the by now renewed Philippine Army was slow. [16] The year 1936 was devoted to the building of camps, organization of cadres, and the special training of instructors, drawn largely from the Constabulary, which joined the new force as the Constabulary Division.
The Department of National Defense or DND was formally organised on November 1, 1939, pursuant to Executive Order No. 230 [3] of President Manuel L. Quezon to implement Commonwealth Act No. 1 or the National Defense Act of 1935 passed by the National Assembly on December 31, 1935, [4] and Commonwealth Act No. 340 creating the department.
Commonwealth Act No. 246 – General Appropriations Act of 1936; Commonwealth Act No. 328 – Charter of the City of Bacolod; Commonwealth Act No. 343 – Abolition of the State Force Police and the Re-Creation of the Philippine Constabulary; Commonwealth Act No. 381 – Creating A Level of Three Years of Immediate Education for Children and ...