REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. 737

Introduced by MAGDALO Party-List Representative
HON. MANUEL DG. CABOCHAN IIL

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Security guards are expected to protect the premises, assets, and personnel of their employers.
Their main goal is to detect and deter the conduct of all illegal or inappropriate actions by
maintaining high visibility presence. Often, they act as force multipliers to our regular law
enforcers in ensuring public safety and maintaining peace and order. Hence, security
personnel are often times the target of criminal elements.

Article 152 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC) provides a definition on who shall be deemed
as “Persons in Authority (PIA)” and “Agents of Persons in Authority (APIA)”. The definition
provided under Article 152 is crucial as it affords certain protection to PIAs and APIAs while
in the conduct of functions or duties vested upon them.

This measure seeks to amend Article 152 of the Revised Penal Code to include security
guards as “Agents of Persons in Authority” as they are generally charged with the
maintenance of peace and order and the protection and security of life and property. It is high
time we upgrade the status of the security guards and afford them the protection provided to
AIPAs under the Revised Penal Code.

In view of the foregoing, approval of this measure is earnestly sought.

MANUEL DG,JCABOCHAN III
Representative
Magdalo Para Sa Pilipino Party-List


REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bilt No, 8737

Introduced by MAGDALO Party-List Representative
HON. MANUEL DG. CABOCHAN IIL

AN ACT
DESIGNATING SECURITY GUARDS OF DULY ACCREDITED AGENCIES AS
AGENTS OF PERSONS IN AUTHORITY WHILE ENGAGED IN THE
PERFORMANCE OF OFFICIAL DUTIES, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE
ARTICLE 152 OF ACT NO. 3815 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE REVISED PENAL
CODE

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress
assembled:

1 SECTION 1. Article 152 of Act No. 3815, otherwise known as “The Revised
2 Penal Code”, is hereby amended to read as follows:
3
4 “ART, 152, Persons in authority and agents of persons in authority — Who shall
5 be deemed as such. — In applying the provisions of the preceding and other
6 articles of this Code, any person directly vested with jurisdiction, whether as an
7 individual or as a member of some court or government corporation, board, or
8 commission, shall be deemed a person in authority. A barrio captain and a
9 barangay chairman shall also be deemed a person in authority.
10
Ft Any person who, by direct provision of law or by election or by appointment by
2 competent authority, is charged with the maintenance of public order and the
3 protection and security of life and property, such as a barrio captain, barrio
14 councilman, barrio policeman and barangay leader, SECURITY GUARD OF
1s DULY ACCREDITED SECURITY AGENCY WHILE ENGAGED IN
16 THE PERFORMANCE OF OFFICIAL DUTIES, and any person who
v7 comes to the aid of persons in authority, shall be deemed an agent of a person in
18 authority.
19
20 In applying the provisions of Articles 148 and 151 of this Code, teachers,

a professors, and persons charged with the supervision of public or duly


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recognized private schools, colleges and universities, shall be deemed persons
in authority.”

SEC. 2. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,