PROVIDING TIE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE ACADEMY WITH AN ACADEMIC CHARTER AND EXPANDING ITS CURRICULAR PROGRAMS.

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree Numbered Eleven Hundred and
Eighty Pour, otherwise known as the Integrated National Police Personnel
Professionalization Law of 1977, promulgated on 26 August 1977, has established
the Philippine National Police Academy as a service facility for the training
and education of the members of the Integrated National Police with the view of
professionalizing the personnel in every level of command thereof;

WHEREAS, it is imperative that the Philippine National
Police Academy be provided with an academic charter in order to enhance
its organizational growth and development and to better achieve the goals of
professionalization of the Integrated National Police;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree to be part of the laws of the land, the following:

SECTION 1. Title. — This Decree shall be known as the
“Philippine National Police Academy Charter of 1981.”

SECTION 2. Status. — The Philippine National Police
Academy, as established under Section Nineteen of Presidential Decree Numbered
Eleven Hundred and Eighty Four, otherwise known as the Integrated National
Police Personnel Professionalization Law of 1977, promulgated on 26 August 1977,
is hereby declared as the premier educational institution of the Integrated
National Police, hereinafter referred to in this Decree as the Academy.

SECTION 3. Academic Programs. — The Academy shall
primary develop and conduct professional, specialized and technological
education in public safety and social defense and shall promote continuing
research, advanced studies and progressive leadership in its areas of
specialization in addition to its regular academic programs, the Academy snail
offer opportunity or short-term training courses in its areas of specialization
to meet the needs of personnel of the integrated National Police.

SECTION 4. Cadetship Program. — The Academy shell
also be responsible for the development, conduction administration of the
Cadetship Program of the Integrated National Police, with the view of providing
the preparatory education necessary for the development of potential officers
imbued with the professional competence and management leadership qualities and
skills compatible with the dynamic role of the Integrated National police in
public safety and social defense.

Participants in this Cadetship Program shall be known as cadets whose
qualifications and standards for selection, appointment, pay and allowances,
benefits and other privileges shall be determined by the Director General in
accordance with existing laws, rules and regulations.

Cadets herein shall collectively constitute the Corps of Cadets of the
Integrated National Police.

SECTION 5. Academic Degress and Proficiency Certificates
of Diplomas. — In the conduct of it’s academic programs, the Academy shall
have the power and authority to grant and confer academic degrees and/or
proficiency certificates or diplomas and such other appropriate privileges to
successful participants thereof, subject to the approval of the Minister of
National Defense and the Minister of Education and Culture, for proper
accreditation. Provided, however, that graduates of the Philippine
National Police Academy of any prescribed course of instruction equivalent to an
undergraduate course having a duration of not less than two academic years prior
to the approval of this Decree shall be entitled to the privileges
provided herein.

SECTION 6. Rules and Regulations.— The Director
General, subject to the approval of the Minister of National Defense, shall
prescribe such rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this
Decree.

SECTION 7. Repealing Clause.— All laws, decrees or
executive orders contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Decree
are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

SECTION 8. Separability Clause. — If any provision
of this Decree is held invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions hereof
shall not be affected thereby.

SECTION 9. Effectivity. — This Decree shall take
effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 15th day of January, in the year of Our
Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-one

			(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines
	By the President:
	(Sgd.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
		Deputy Presidential Executive Assistant

 

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