QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 110)
Executive Order No. 110 is anchored on Republic Act No. 8551, particularly Section 3, which amended Section 12 of Republic Act No. 6975 and provides that the PNP shall, through information gathering and ordinary police functions, support the AFP in matters involving suppression of insurgency, except when the President calls the PNP to support the AFP in combat operations.
The exception is when the President shall call on the PNP to support the AFP in combat operations.
It contemplates support through the PNP’s information gathering and performance of ordinary police functions (as stated in the RA 8551 framework cited by EO 110).
ISO refers to coordinated measures to enhance internal security of the state and its institutions for the suppression of insurgency and other serious threats to national security, as implemented through the joint AFP-PNP system.
Section 1 authorizes the PNP to make appropriate adjustments in its organization subject to the approval of the National Police Commission.
The National Police Commission.
To provide the mechanism, structure, and procedures for the integrated assessment of the security situation and integrated planning, coordinating, implementation, and monitoring of measures aimed at enhancing internal security.
Integrated assessment of the security situation and integrated planning, coordinating, implementation, and monitoring of necessary measures for internal security.
The Department of National Defense and the Department of the Interior and Local Government.
They are jointly determined and recommended by the PNP and AFP for approval of the President.
From the Contingent Fund and from other available funds in the CY 1998 and 1999 General Appropriations Act.
The required amounts shall be incorporated in the budget of the PNP and the annual General Appropriations Act.
EO 110 shall take effect immediately.
To protect the people from NPA terroristic activities and to preserve public order and safety, while AFP elements are deployed to contain the insurgency problem throughout the country.
EO 110 notes that the PNP is organized as a territorial force with presence of personnel in all provinces, cities, and municipalities, making it suitable for support in internal security operations.
It recommended the utilization of the PNP in internal security operations against insurgency, in consultation with the Chairman of the Regional Peace and Order Councils.
A student may note the need to reconcile PNP ordinary police functions with AFP internal security operations and to ensure compliance with the legal limits stated in RA 8551 (support through ordinary police functions, and combat operations only upon a presidential call).