GRANTING ALL THE UNIFORMED MEMBERS OF THE INTEGRATED NATIONAL POLICE QUARTERS ALLOWANCE

WHEREAS, Section 6 of Presidential Decree No. 855 dated December 22, 1975, authorizes the Director General, Integrated National Police subject to approval of the Minister of National Defense, to prescribe reasonable allowances for the police and fire service personnel, such as, but not limited to, subsistence, cost of living and clothing allowances, in order to compensate for the difference in the cost of living in the different regions or areas of the country, and for the effective maintenance of a well-disciplined law enforcement force;

WHEREAS, the present allowances prescribed and authorized to the uniformed members of the Integrated National Police are no longer responsive to their needs due to economic recession and inflation;

WHEREAS, there is a need to augment their present prescribed allowances to improve the economic well-being of the INP;

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 direct:

1. The grant of monthly quarters allowance to all uniformed members of the Integrated National Police at the rate prescribed opposite each grade as follows:

Grade	Rate Per Month
Police/Fire Brigadier General	P280
Police/Fire Colonel	240
Police/Fire Lt. Colonel	210
Police/Fire Major	180
Police/Fire Captain	160
Police/Fire Lieutenant	140
Police/Fire Sergeant	100
Police/Fire Corporal	90
Patrolman/Fireman First Class	80
Patrolman/Fireman	80

2. Funds needed to implement this Order shall be drawn from salary savings of the Integrated National Police Appropriation for CY 1982. Any further augmentation shall come from the budgetary reserves of CY 1982 General Appropriation Act. Funds intended to carry out this Order for the succeeding years shall be incorporated in the annual appropriation of the INP.

3. The rules and regulations needed to comply with this Order shall be formulated by the Ministry of National Defense.

4. This Executive Order shall take effect on August 8, 1982.

DONE IN THE CITY OF MANILA, this 8th day of AUGUST in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Two.

By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant