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.


By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary