Section 2
SEC. 2. There is hereby further inserted in Presidential Decree No. 971 another new Section to be known as Section 8-A which shall read as follows: "SECTION 8-A. Summary dismissal. — The Regional Director including the Director of the Metropolitan Police Force and the Director General may immediately remove or dismiss any respondent Integrated National Police member without the necessity of a formal investigation in any of the following cases: a. When the charge is serious and the evidence of guilt is strong; b. When the respondent is a recidivist or has been repeatedly charged and there are reasonable grounds to believe that he is guilty of the charges; c. When the respondent is notoriously undesirable. "The decision of the Regional Director or the Director of the Metropolitan Police Force to immediately remove or dismiss any respondent Integrated National Police member shall be appealable, within thirty (30) days from receipt thereof to the National Police Commission. The decision of the Director General, Integrated National Police .and the National Police Commission reversing a decision to summarily dismiss a member thereof is final and shall entitle said member to reinstatement in the service in the position and rank last held, and payment of all back salaries and other emoluments during the period that he was out of the service. Resort to summary dismissal by the disciplining authority shall be done with utmost objectivity and impartiality with the end that no injustice is committed.”