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

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 1780
• Sections: 10

Preamble

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.

SECTION 1. Title. — This Decree shall be known as the

"Philippine National Police Academy Charter of 1981."

Section 2 Status.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Vol. 25, Vital Documents, Presidential Decree 1980-1981