CREATING THE PEACE AND ORDER COUNCIL

By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a Peace and Order Council to coordinate the overall campaign against crime, composed of the following:

The Secretary of Justice	Chairman
The Secretary of Education	Member
A representative of the publishing group	Member
A representative of the Catholic group	Member
A representative of the Protestant group	Member
A representative of the Iglesia ni Cristo	Member
A representative of the Civic Assembly of Women	Member
The Director, N.B.I.	Executive Officer

Similar councils on provincial and city levels are likewise created, composed of the Provincial Governor and the City Mayor, as the case may be, as Chairman and representatives of the publishing, Catholic, Protestant and Iglesia ni Cristo groups and a leading civic association as members. In predominantly Muslim areas, a representative of that faith shall be included in the council.

The Provincial Governor is authorized to organize like councils in the various municipalities of his province, with membership along the same pattern provided in provincial and city councils.

The councils herein created are hereby authorized to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government for such assistance as they may need in the discharge of their functions.

Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-six.

By the President:
(SGD.) RAFAEL M. SALAS
Executive Secretary