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DND terminates military assignments

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The Department of National Defense on Friday terminated the assignment of military personnel serving as protective security escort to civilian offices and officials of government.

The revocation was in consonance with the issuance of an Implementing Rules and Regulations based on the Executive Order 98, 2019 signed by President Rodrigo Duterte and published through Department Circular 2 dated Dec. 27, 2019.

Under the new IRR, AFP personnel can no longer be detailed to government civilian offices and officials for protective assignments.

Instead, military personnel can only be detailed to entitled civilian offices and officials as Aide-de-Camps, military Assistant or Military Administrative Assistant.

“Current protective security assignments of detailed military personnel will no longer be extended and security assignment will now be solely undertaken by the PNP,” the IRR reads.

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However, the Defense department and the Interior and Local Government will issue separate rules and regulations for the implementation of the E.O. including quotas on the deployment limit.

In its IRR, the DND has identified the government civilian officials/offices allowed to have the detail of military personnel serving as military assistant and military administrative assistant.

Among them are former vice presidents; Joint United States Military Assistance Group (Jusmag); National Coast Watch Council Secretariat; Cabinet Cluster on Security; Justice and Peace, Office of the President.

It included the Office of the Presidential Adviser for Military Affairs, Office of the President; National Security Council-Crisis Management Support Secretariat; National Intelligence Coordinating Agency; Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process.

Other offices were the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, Office of the President; Office of the Special Envoy on Transnational Crime, Office of the President; Philippine Center on Transnational Crime, Office of the President; Office of the Ombudsman; National Task Force-Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict. 

The offices of the Visiting Forces Agreement, Office of the President; Department of the Interior and Local Government; Department of Finance; Department of Energy’ Department of Budget and Management; Department of Science and Technology and Bureau of Customs.

In the IRR, the Office of the Vice President has not been identified as allowed to have a detailed military personnel as protective security, but only as military aide and military assistant.

The IRR also provides for allowing military assistant to the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Executive Secretary, Chairperson of the Senate National Committee on Defense and Security and Chairperson of the House National Committee on Defense and Security.

Former Presidents will also be accorded military protective escorts, military assistant and military administrative assistant, while spouse or widower of former Presidents or identified next of kin, are also entitled to have both military security and administrative assistant. 

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