Section 3
SEC. 3. Section 12 of Republic Act No. 6975 is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 12. Relationship of the Department with the Department of National Defense. - The Department of the Interior and Local Government shall be relieved of the primary responsibility on matters involving the suppression of insurgency and other serious threats to national security. The Philippine National Police shall, through information gathering and performance of its ordinary police functions, support the Armed Forces of the Philippines on matters involving suppression of insurgency, except in cases where the President shall call on the PNP to support the AFP in combat operations. "In times of national emergency, the PNP, the Bureau of Fire Protection, and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology shall, upon the direction of the President, assist the armed forces in meeting the national emergency." TITLE IIITHE NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSION