MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Executive Order No. 122, March 11, 1968 ]
CREATING THE PEACE AND ORDER COORDINATING COUNCIL
By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create the Peace and Order Coordinating Council to be composed of the following:
| The President of the Philippines |
Chairman |
| Secretary of Justice |
Vice-Chairman |
| Executive Secretary |
Member and Executive Secretary |
| Chairman, Police Commission |
Member |
| Chief of Constabulary |
Member |
| Director, National Bureau of Investigation |
Member |
| Representative of the Department of National Defense on Peace and Order |
Member |
The Council shall coordinate the overall campaign against crime and for the maintenance of peace and order, with the end in view of removing obstacles in the path of each law-enforcing agency and facilitating concerted and coordinated action and expediting the prompt investigation and prosecution of criminal cases.
The Council shall meet once a week and shall report directly to the President.1aшphi1
It may call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government for such assistance as it may need in the discharge of its functions.
Full financial support shall be extended by the Secretary of Finance and the Commissioner of the Budget.
Done in the City of Manila, this 11th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS
Executive Secretary
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