Inter-Agency

APPROACH
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The Department of the Interior and Local
Government (DILG) is the executive department
responsible for promoting peace and order, ensuring
public safety, and strengthening the capability of
local government units to effectively deliver basic
services to the citizenry.

POWERS & FUNCTION

✓ Assist the President in the exercise of
✓ Provide assistance towards legislation regarding local
general supervision over local governments; governments, law enforcement and public safety; Establish
✓ Advise the President in the promulgation and prescribe plans, policies, programs and projects to
promote peace and order, ensure public safety and further
of policies, rules, regulations and other
strengthen the administrative, technical and fiscal
issuances on the general supervision over capabilities of local government offices and personnel;
local governments and on public order and ✓
Formulate plans, policies and programs which will meet
safety; local emergencies arising from natural and man-made
✓ Establish and prescribe rules, regulations disasters;
and other issuances implementing laws on Establish a system of coordination and cooperation among
the citizenry, local executives and the Department, to ensure
public order and safety, the general
effective and efficient delivery of basic services to the public;
supervision over local governments and the
promotion of local autonomy and
✓
Organize, train and equip primarily for the performance of
police functions, a police force that is national in scope and
community empowerment and monitor civilian in character.
compliance thereof;

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BUREAU OF FIRE PROTECTION

The Bureau of Fire Protection is the
government fire service of the Philippines. It
is under the jurisdiction of the Department of
the Interior and Local Government.

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Reference: LEAD 1 - New Curriculum

LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION (With Inter-Agency Approach)
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BUREAU OF JAIL MANAGEMENT
AND PENOLOGY
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology is an attached
agency of the Department of the Interior and Local
Government mandated to direct, supervise and control the
administration and operation of all district, city and
municipal jails in the Philippines with pronged tasks of
safekeeping and development of its inmates, officially
classed as persons deprived of liberty (PDL)

MAJOR PROGRAMS
There are four (4) major programs under the mandate of BJMP and they are the following:
1. Inmates custody, security and control program.
2. Inmates welfare and development program.
3. Decongestion program.
4. Good governance.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Department of Justice is under the executive
department of the Philippine government
responsible for upholding the rule of law in the
Philippines. It is the government's principal law
agency, serving as its legal counsel and
prosecution arm.

FUNCTIONS:
1. Administration of the Criminal Justice 7. DOJ functions under other laws and other
System executive issuances:
2. Legal Counsel of Government Example:

3. Regulation of Immigration
4. International Cooperation
5. Provision of Free Legal Assistance
6. Alternative Dispute Resolution
✓ The Witness Protection, Security and Benefit
Act (R.A. 6981),
✓ Implementation of the Victims Compensation
Program through the Board of Claims created
under the DOJ (RA 7309);

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NATIONAL BUREAU OF
INVESTIGATION
The National Bureau of Investigation is an
agency of the Philippine government under the
Department of Justice, responsible for handling
and solving major high-profile cases that are in
the interest of the nation.

THE NBI IS MANDATED TO INVESTIGATE/TAKE ON THE FOLLOWING CASES:

1. Extrajudicial/extra-legal killings
by state security forces against
media practitioners/activists.
2. Murders of justices and judges
3. Violations of the Cybercrime
Prevention Act (Republic Act No.
10175)
7. Cases involving threats to security or assaults against
the persons of the President, Vice President, Senate
President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
8. Transnational crimes based on international
agreements
9. Identification of victims of natural disasters
10.Violations of:
✓ the E-Commerce Act of 2000 (Republic Ac No. 8792);

4. Cases from the Inter-Agency

Anti-Graft Coordinating Council
5. Anti-Dummy Law cases
6. Human trafficking cases in all
Philippine airports
✓ the Access Devices Regulations Act of 1998 (Republic Act
No. 8484);
✓ the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines
(Republic Act No. 8293);
✓ the Securities Regulation Code (Republic Act No. 8799);
✓ the Decree Increasing the Penalty for Certain Forms of
Estafa (Presidential Decree No. 1689)

BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS
The Bureau of Corrections is an agency of the Department
of Justice which is charged with the custody and
rehabilitation of national offenders, who have been
sentenced to three years of imprisonment or more. The
agency has its headquarters in the New Bilibid Prison
Reservation in Muntinlupa.

LEGAL BASIS:
• The BUREAU OF PRISONS was established on November 1, 1905 under the DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION through REORGANIZATION ACT ACT 1407 of the PHILIPPINE COMISSION
until it was Trasferred to the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (DOJ).
• The PRISON LAW incorparated in chapter 45 of the revised ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF 1917.
• SECTION 26 of the ADMINSTRATIVE CODE OF 1987 issued November 23, 1989 under
PROCLAMATION NO. 495 of the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES change the name of the BUREAU
OF PRISON to BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS.
• On May 24, 2013, PRESIDENT BENIGNO SIMEON C. AQUINO III signed into law the REPUBLIC ACT
NO. 10575/ otherwise known as THE BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS ACT of 2013 which provides for
the modernization,
Professionalization and Restructuring of the Bureau.
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APPROACH
PHILIPPINE DRUG
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
✓ The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is the lead anti-drug law
enforcement agency, responsible for preventing, investigating and combating
any dangerous drugs, controlled precursors and essential chemicals within the
Philippines.
✓ PDEA is the implementing arm of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB).
✓ The DDB is the policy-making and strategy-formulating body in the planning
and formulation of policies and programs on drug prevention and control.
✓ PDEA and DDB are both under the supervision of the Office of the President
of the Philippines.

COMPOSITION: ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

✓ PDEA is headed by a Director
General (DG) with the Cabinet rank
of Undersecretary, who is
responsible for the general
administration and management of
the agency.
✓ The Director General is assisted by
two Deputies Director General with
the rank of Assistant Secretary: one
for Administration (DDGA) and the
other one for Operations (DDGO).
✓ The Director General of the PDEA
shall be responsible for the
necessary changes in the
organizational set-up which shall be
submitted to the DDB for approval.

DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE

Department of National Defense is the executive
department of the Philippine government
responsible for guarding against external and
internal threats to peace and security in the
country.

ATTACHED AGENCIES:
• Armed Forces of the Philippines: Army, • Office of Civil Defense.
Navy, Air Force
• Philippine Aerospace
• Government Arsenal.
• National Defense College of the
Development Corporation.
Philippines. • Philippine Veterans Affairs
• National Security Council. Office.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT
AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
is the executive department of the Philippine
government responsible for governing and
supervising the exploration, development, utilization,
and conservation of the country's natural resources.

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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE

PHILIPPINES
The Office of the President, is an administrative,
advisory, consultative government agency which
aids the President of the Philippines in
performing their duty as head of state and chief
of the executive branch of government. The office
is housed within the Malacañang
Palace complex.

MANDATE AND CORE FUNCTIONS

✓ The mandate of the OP Proper is to respond to the specific needs and
requirements of the President to achieve the purposes and objectives of
the Office.
✓ As such, the OP Proper performs the following vital/core functions:

1. Directly assist the President in the

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management of the affairs pertaining to the
Government of the Republic of the Philippines.
2. Provide consultative, research, fact-finding and
advisory service to the President.
3. Assist the President in the performance of
functions pertaining to legislation.
4. Assist the President in the administration of
special projects.
5. Provide direct services to the President and,
for this
purpose, attend to functions and matters that
are personal or which pertain to the First Family.
6. Provide technical and administrative support
on matters concerning development
management, general government
administration and internal administration.