Purpose of Coordinated and Integrated Internal Security Efforts
- Emphasis on ensuring smooth, continuous, consistent, integrated, and coordinated internal security operations during role transitions between DILG-PNP and DND-AFP.
Joint Preparation and Approval of Implementing Guidelines
- The DND and DILG are mandated to jointly develop Implementing Guidelines for internal security management.
- Guidelines include defining strategic concepts of the internal security program, levels of internal security conditions, appropriate government responses for each level, and specific agency roles.
Definitions of Roles in Internal Security Operations
- Primary Role: Entails principal planning, direction, control, and allocation of resources for internal security operations including insurgency suppression.
- Support Role: Entails providing assistance, personnel, and material resources to the lead agency conducting internal security operations.
Initial Role Assignments Effective January 1, 1995
- DILG-PNP officially holds the primary role nationwide in internal security except for certain specified areas.
- For Mindanao, Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Panay, Samar, the Cordillera Administrative Region, Southern Quezon, and Bicol Region, the DND-AFP assumes the primary role.
- General law enforcement functions remain primarily with DILG-PNP nationwide.
Flexibility to Change Roles Based on Security Conditions
- The President, via the National Peace and Order Council, may reassign primary roles between AFP and PNP in response to local internal security conditions.
Establishment of a Joint AFP-PNP Secretariat
- A Joint Secretariat is to be created to monitor operations, assess security conditions, prepare integrated plans, facilitate coordination among agencies, and report to the President.
Immediate Effectivity
- The Executive Order takes immediate effect upon promulgation, reaffirming the transition and operational mandates stated herein.