WHEREAS,
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, 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
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WHEREAS, it is imperative that the Philippine National Police Academy
be provided with an academic charter in order 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:cralaw:red
Section 1. Title. — This Decree shall be known as the
"Philippine National Police Academy Charter of 1981."
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. — The Academy shall
primarily 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 shall 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. — The Academy shall
also be responsible for the development, conduct and 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 Degrees and Proficiency
Certificates or Diplomas. — In the conduct of its 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. — 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. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
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. — If any provision of
this Decree is held invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions
hereof shall not be affected thereby.
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.
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