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PNP Function
- Enforce all laws and ordinance relative to the protection of lives and properties;
- Maintain peace and order and take all necessary steps to ensure public safety;
- Investigate and prevent crimes, effect the arrest of criminal offenders, bring offenders to justice and assist in their prosecution;
- Exercise the general powers to make arrest, search and seizure in accordance with the Constitution and pertinent laws;
- Detain an arrested person for a period not beyond what is prescribed by law, informing the person so detained of all his rights under the Constitution;
- Issue licenses for the possession of firearms and explosives in accordance with law;
- Supervise and control the training and operations of security agencies and issue licenses to operate security agencies, and to security guards and private detectives for the practice of their professions; and
- Perform such other duties and exercise all other functions as may be provided by law.
Classification of the Powers and Functions of the PNP:
1. Statutory Power of the Police, such as:
- To enforce the laws and ordinances relative to the protection of lives and properties;
- To maintain peace and order and take all the necessary steps to ensure public safety;
- To investigate and prevent crime , effect the arrest of criminal offenders, bring offenders to justice and assist in their prosecution;
- To detain an arrested person for a period not beyond what is prescribed by law, informing the person so detained of all his rights under the constitution;
- To exercise the general powers to make arrest, search and seizure and pertinent laws.
2. Licensing, Supervisory and Control, and Training, such as:
- To issue licenses for the possession of firearms and explosives in accordance with law; and
- Supervise and control the training and operations of security agencies and issue license to operate security agencies, and to security guards and private detectives for the practice of their profession;
- To train students taking up their baccalaureate, vocational or technical courses in undergoing Law Enforcement Service Program in compliance of the National Service Law.
3. Deputized Statutory Power of the Police, that is, to perform such other duties and exercise all other functions as maybe provided by law:
- To enforce election laws during the conduct of election;
- To enforce laws involving agriculture, environment and natural resources;
- To enforce laws involving land transportation; and
- Many other laws under the jurisdiction of various departments and/or offices of the government where the PNP will be deputized under the principle of intra-coordination between and among offices/departments of the governments.
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