Integrated National Police

Philippine Constabulary - Integrated National Police Policia Nacional Conjunto - PGP
Unit seal of the PC-INP.
Active	August 8, 1975 - January 29, 1991
Country	Philippines
Allegiance	Philippines
Branch	Philippine Constabulary
Type	Constabulary
Role	Law enforcement
Size	1 National Headquarters, 12 Regional Commands
Part of	Under the Philippine Constabulary
Headquarters	Camp Crame, Quezon City
Nickname(s)	INP
Anniversaries	08 August
Disbanded	1991

The Integrated National Police (INP) (Filipino: Pinagsamang Pulisyáng Pambansà) (PPP) was the municipal police force for the cities and large towns of the Republic of the Philippines. One of two national police forces in the country along with the Philippine Constabulary, it merged with the latter in 1991 to form the present Philippine National Police.

Until the mid-1970s, the independent city and municipal police forces took charge of maintaining peace and order on a local level, and when necessary was reinforced by the Philippine Constabulary, the national gendarmerie that was a major branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The National Police Commission was established in 1966 to improve the professionalism and training of local police and exercised some supervisory authority over the police. However, this system was widely seen to have several serious defects such jurisdictional limitations, lack of uniformity, poor inter-agency coordination, disputes between police forces. Lastly, partisan politics infiltrated police employment, appointments, assignments, and promotions. Politicians frequently abused the police as private armies to protect their personal interests, since most civic police forces were under the control of the mayors.

In order to correct such deficiencies, during Martial law in the Philippines under President Ferdinand Marcos the 1973 Constitution provided for amalgamation of the public safety forces. Several Presidential Decrees were subsequently issued, integrating the police, fire, and jail services of the 1,500 cities and municipalities into the INP. On 8 August 1975, Presidential Decree 765 officially established the joint command structure of the Philippine Constabulary and Integrated National Police. The arrangement became known as the Philippine Constabulary-Integrated National Police (PC-INP), and INP became also an element of the Armed Forces since it was then under supervision of the Constabulary.