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Former chief of the Philippine constabulary Rafael Crame from whom Camp Crame headquarters was named after.. The Philippine Constabulary (PC; Tagalog: Hukbóng Pamayapà ng Pilipinas, HPP; Spanish: Constabularía Filipina) was a gendarmerie-type military police force of the Philippines from 1901 to 1991, and the predecessor to the Philippine National Police.
The Philippine National Police (PNP; Filipino: Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas [4]) is the national police force of 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.
The INP, as a paramilitary national police force and due to its joint command with the PC, used the rank system of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in force at that time in keeping with the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 1184 (the Integrated National Police Personnel Professionalization Law of 1977). [4] [5]
On July 8, 1974, President Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 421, making MetroCom the basis for a regional police command for the future Metro Manila region. [3] All local police departments within the capital area were joined under national government control as the Metropolitan Police Force (MPF) and overseen by the commander of MetroCom.
The history of the Police Regional Office Bangsamoro Autonomous Region is traced back to the establishment of the Fourth Philippine Constabulary Zone of the Philippine Constabulary in 1971. In the same year, the headquarters of the constabulary unit, Camp Brigadier General Salipada K Pendatun was set up which would later be the main camp of the ...
The Special Action Force (SAF) is the elite unit of the Philippine National Police founded by Fidel V. Ramos, later the twelfth president of the Philippines. History [ edit ]
The Philippine Constubulary (PC) itself would be abolished through Republic Act 6975, the Department of Interior and Local Government Act of 1990, passed by the 8th Philippine Congress and [1] signed by then President Corazon Aquino in December 1990. The Philippine National Police (PNP) was established as in PC's place.
Today, the camp serves as the headquarters of the Philippine National Police, the force established in 1991 as an entity separate from the AFP; despite the separation, however, the titles to the land on which Camp Crame stands were turned over to the PNP by the AFP only in July 2008. [citation needed] The camp's office buildings.