Section 1
SECTION 1. The barangay Chairman, barrio captain, barangay leader and barrio council members shall, within their respective districts or barrios, assist the regular police agencies in the maintenance of peace and order. For this purpose, such barangay or barrio officials shall, in addition to their other functions, discharge or perform their following responsibilities or duties. To report immediately to the law enforcement police authorities concerned, the occurrence of any crime, accident, public disturbance or public nuisance of which he has personal knowledge or which may have been brought to his attention. To report immediately to the law enforcement police authorities the presence of any known criminal or suspicious character in his jurisdiction; To conduct surveillance on suspicious activities or group movements in his district or barrio or to report immediately to the police authorities any positive finding or information he might gather; To conduct surveillance of crime breeding areas in the barangay and report his observation to the law enforcement/police authorities. To assist law enforcement/police authorities in tracing the whereabouts of missing persons, arresting escaped prisoners and other fugitives from justice and in recovering stolen properties or confiscating contrabands. To assist law enforcement/police authorities and other competent authorities in the service or execution of warrants and other judicial processes; and To coordinate closely with and actively assist law enforcement/police authorities in the drive against all forms of vices, smuggling, carnapping, drug traffic and addiction, juvenile delinquency, violation of special laws and all other forms of lawlessness.