Philippine National Police



"So the Philippine National Police is the armed/civilian law enforcement agency in the Philippines with Camp Crame in Quezon City, Metro Manila as its national hadquarters. Commissioned by the Philippines' own National Police Commission and part of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, its local police officers are operationally controlled by municipal mayors, but the DILG organizes, trains and equips its officers for police functions while being national in scope and characteristically civilian. It's intended to merge the Philippine Constabulary and the Integrated National Police when the Republic Act 6975 in 1990. Now were they trying to arrest me or what?"

--Su Ji-Hoon, Meeting Cardo

The Philippine National Police (Filipino: Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas, abbreviated PNP) 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 170,000 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.