Executive Order No. 176




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 176, December 01, 1938 ] DESIGNATING THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO EXERCISE SUPERVISION OVER LOCAL POLICE FORCES Pursuant to the provisions of section six of Commonwealth Act Numbered Three hundred forty-three, entitled “An Act to abolish the State Police Force, to reorganize the Philippine Constabulary into a National Police Force and providing funds therefor” and until further orders, I hereby designate the Secretary of the Interior to exercise supervision over local police forces. All the powers and duties reserved to the President by Executive Order Numbered One hundred seventy-five, dated November eleventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, regarding the appointment, organization, and administration of local police forces, with the exception of such powers as by law expressly pertain to the President, shall hereafter, until further orders, be exercised by the Secretary of the Interior. Done at the City of Manila, the first day of December in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth.1âшphi1 MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation