Philippine National Police

## Philippine National Police Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas

* Police Uniform Patch and Insignia
* Police Badge

The **Philippine National Police (PNP *Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas*?)** is the armed, civilian national police force in the Philippines. Its national headquarters is at Camp Crame in Quezon City, Metro Manila, and it has 205,000 personnel.

It is administered and controlled by the National Police Commission and is part of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). Local police officers are operationally controlled by municipal mayors. DILG, on the other hand, organizes, trains, and equips the PNP for the performance of police functions as a police force that is national in scope and civilian in character.

The PNP was formed on January 29, 1991, when the Philippine Constabulary and the Integrated National Police were merged pursuant to Republic Act 6975 of 1990.

## Units of the PNP

**Operational Units of the PNP**

* **Maritime Group (MG)**. This group is responsible to perform all police functions over Philippine Territorial waters, lakes, and rivers along coastal areas to include ports and harbors and small islands for the security and the sustainable development of the maritime environment.
* **Intelligence Group (IG)**. This group serves as the intelligence and counter-intelligence operating unit of the PNP.
* **Police Security and Protection Group (PSPG)**. This group provides security to government vital installations, government officials, visiting dignitaries, and private individuals authorized to be given protection.
* **Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)**. This group monitors investigates, prosecutes all crimes involving economic sabotage, and other crimes of such magnitude and extent as to indicate their commission by highly placed or professional criminal syndicates and organizations. It also conducts organized- crime –control, all major cases involving violations of the revised penal Code, violators of SPECIAL LAWS assigned to them such as Anti-hijacking, Anti-Carnapping, and Cybercrimes among others and atrocities committed by Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)/New People’s Army (NPA)/National Democratic Front (NDF).
* **Special Action Force (SAF)**. This group is a mobile strike force or a reaction unit to augment regional, provincial, municipal and city police force for civil disturbance control, internal security operations, hostage-taking rescue operations, search and rescue in times of natural calamities, disasters, and national emergencies and other special police operations such as ant-hijacking, anti-terrorism, explosives, and ordnance disposal. On a special note, the PNP Air Unit is placed under the supervision of SAF.
* **Aviation Security Group (AVSEGROUP)**. This group provides security to all airports throughout the country.
* **Highway Patrol Group (HPG)**. This group enforces the traffic laws and regulations, promote safety along the highways, enhances traffic safety consciousness through inter-agency cooperation concerning Police Traffic Safety Engineering, Traffic Safety Education and Traffic Law enforcement functions and develops reforms in the crime prevention aspect against all forms of lawlessness committed along National Highway involving the use of motor vehicles.
* **Police-Community Relations Group (PCRG)**. This group undertakes and orchestrates Police Community Relations programs and activities in partnership with concerned government agencies, the community, and volunteer organizations in order to prevent crime and attain a safe and peaceful environment.
* **Civil Security Group (CSG)**. This group regulates business operations and activities of all organized private detectives, watchmen, security guards/agencies, and company guard forces. It also supervises the licensing and registration of firearms and explosives.
* **Crime Laboratory (CL**). This group provides scientific and technical, investigative aide and support to the PNP and other investigative agencies. It also provides crime laboratory examination, evaluation, and identification of physical evidence gathered at the crime scene with primary emphasis on medical, biological, and physical nature.
* **PNP Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG)**. This Group serves as the primary unit of the PNP in addressing kidnapping menace in the country and in handling hostage situations. And
* **PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group (PNP- ACG)**. This Group is responsible for the implementation of pertinent laws on cybercrimes and anti-cybercrime campaigns of the PNP.