Philippine Constabulary - Organization - Headquarters Organization

Headquarters Organization

Headquarters Directorates:

• 1. Directorate for Personnel
• 2. Directorate for Human Resource and Doctrine Development
• 3. Directorate for Logistics,
• 4. Directorate for Research and Development
• 5. Directorate for Comptrollership,
• 6. Directorate for Plans,
• 7. Directorate for Police-Community Relations,
• 9. Directorate for Investigation and
• 10. Directorate for Special Staff

The Philippine Constabulary Rangers, or PC Rangers, were independent light infantry companies which served as a counter-insurgency force similar to United States Army Rangers and were organized into 12 large regional companies.

Constabulary Headquarters directly controlled many other services needed at a national level such as the Special Action Force, Central Crime Laboratory, White Collar Crime Group, and Office of Special Investigations (which was a counter intellingence group).

• Administrative support units, namely: Logistics Support Service (LSS), Computer Service, Finance Service, Dental and Medical Service, Communication and Electronic Service, Chaplain Service, Legal Service and Headquarters Support Service; and
• Operational Support Units, namely: Maritime Group, Crime Laboratory, Intelligence Group, Police Security Group, Criminal Investigation Group, Narcotics Group, Special Action Force, Traffic Management Group, Police-Community Relations Group, Aviation Security Group and Civil Security Group.

The Constabulary also maintained the following units:

• PC/INP Air Unit (Bölkow BO 105 and Hughes 300),
• Constabulary Boat Service to patrol the extensive waters of the Philippines (later detached and merged with Customs Patrol and Naval Patrol to form the Philippine Coast Guard),
• Crime and forensic labs,
• PC Metropolitan Command (METROCOM), and
• National Constabulary Investigations Service which acted in a similar way to the FBI (the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation which was formed later).