Administrative Order No. 225 (1970)

MALACAÑAN PALACE

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 225, July 01, 1970 ]

CREATING THE COMMITTEE ON CRIME PREVENTION AND TREATMENT AS AN ACTION ARM OF 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 Committee on Crime Prevention and Treatment as an action arm of the Peace and Order Coordinating Council, composed of the following:

Secretary Gregorio M. Feliciano | – | Chairman Dr. Elena Perez, Ompoc (DSW) | – | Exec. Secretary Honorable Natividad Almeda-Lopez (Fiendship, Inc.) | – | Member Atty. Paz Inocencio (Board of Pardons and Parole) | – | Member Miss Teresita Silva (DSW) | – | Member Honorable Maria Kalaw Katigbak (GSP) | – | Member Judge Corazon J. Agrava (JDRC of Manila) | – | Member Director Victor Baltazar (DSW) | – | Member Mr. Jose G. Burgos, Jr. (Big Brother-Big Sister Movement, Inc.) | – | Member Dr. Pedro Solis (NBI) | – | Member Dr. Roberto Sucgang (DSW) | – | Member Atty. Sergio Go (Police Commission) | – | Member

The Committee shall have the following functions and objectives:

1. To prepare a realistic and workable national program on crime prevention and treatment.

2. To focus community awareness on the hazards of criminality and get them involved in the prevention and treatment of this social malady.

The Committee is empowered to create such sub-committees as may be necessary to initiate practical preventive and remedial measures to combat criminality.

The Committee is authorized to 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.

Periodic reports on status of plans and programs/projects shall be submitted to the Secretariat, Peace and Order Coordinating Council.

Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR

Executive Secretary