EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LAW IN

THE PHILIPPINES

III. AMERICAN REGIME (PHILIPPINE

I. PRE-COLONIAL JUSTICE
II. JUSTICE UNDER GOD
(SPANISH COLONIALISM) -
1521-1854
IN 1521, THE PORTUGUESE NAVIGATOR
AND EXPLORER FERDINAND MAGELLAN
UNDER THE SERVICE OF SPAIN CAME
ACROSS THE PHILIPPINES WHILE
SEARCHING FOR THE SPICE ISLANDS
V. POST PEOPLE’S REVOLUTION (NEW
CONSTABULARY) - AUGUST 8, 1901
CONSTITUTION
THE PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY (PC) WAS ORGANIZED BY FOR POLICE FORCE) - 1986
HENRY T. ALLEN AS THE LOCAL POLICE FORCE. ALLEN AN
AMERICAN, WAS LATER DUBBED AS THE FATHER OF THE
PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY. BY AUTHORITY OF ACT NO.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6975 ESTABLISHED THE
IV. PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 765 (PHILIPPINE
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE (PNP) UNDER A
CONSTABULARY INTEGRATED NATIONAL
REORGANIZED DEPARTMENT OFTHE INTERIOR
POLICE) - AUGUST 8, 1975
ON 8 AUGUST 1975, PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 765 OFFICIALLY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
ESTABLISHED THE JOINT COMMAND
STRUCTURE OF THE PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY AND
INTEGRATED NATIONAL POLICE.

VIII. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8551 (PNP

VI. REPUBLIC ACT 6975
(PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE
UNDER A REORGANIZED
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT) -
DECEMBER 13, 1990
SECTION 66 OF RA 6975 ESTABLISHED AND CONSTITUTED
ABSORPTION OF THE SELECTED MEMBERS FROM
THE PHILIPPINE PUBLIC SAFETY COLLEGE (PPSC) AS THE
PREMIER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE TRAINING,
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUING
EDUCATION OF ALL PERSONNEL OF THE PHILIPPINE
NATIONAL POLICE (PNP), THE BUREAU OF FIRE PROTECTION
(BFP) AND THE BUREAU OF JAIL .
VII. PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE WAS
OPERATIONAL - JANUARY 29, 1991
SUBSEQUENTLY, THE PNP WAS OPERATIONAL
ON JANUARY 29, 1991, WHOSE MEMBERS WERE
FORMERLY THE PC AND THE INP AND THE
THE MAJOR SERVICE UNITS OF THE ARMED
FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES
REFORM AND THE
REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1998) -
FEBRUARY 17, 1998
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE REFORM AND
REORGANIZATION OF THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL
POLICE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AMENDING
CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED
SIXTY-NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE ENTITLED