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WHEREAS,
Sec. 4 of Presidential Decree No. 971 directs the immediate
preventive suspension of members of the Integrated National Police who
are charged in court pending final decision by the court of their cases;
WHEREAS, court records reveal that a significant number of criminal
cases filed against members of the Integrated National Police resulted
in the acquittal of the accused, for the reason that a large number of
these cases were filed for purposes of harassment or to obtain leverage
for settlement;
WHEREAS, the existing procedure has proven to be prejudicial to the
public interest since the automatic preventive suspension of members of
the Integrated National Police charged in court unduly deprives the
police service of personnel who could otherwise perform their duties
and responsibilities, and onerous to public finance, since upon
acquittal, the accused are by law authorized to receive back salaries
corresponding to the period of their preventive suspension; and
WHEREAS, there is a need to adopt a judicious procedure in the issuance
of suspension orders with the end in view of limiting preventive
suspension only to cases where public interest so requires.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree the following:
Section 1.
"Sec. 4.
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"3.
"4.
Sec. 2.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 25th day of July in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-two.
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