Editing Philippine Constabulary (section)

==Missions and duties==
The PC's missions were as follows:
* 1. To preserve peace and order and enforce the law throughout the country and also to arrest law violators and those who will violate such laws;
* 2. Inspectional supervision over, and undertake the training of, municipal and city level police forces, fire departments, and jail services;
* 3. To assist civil government and semi-government agencies in the accomplishment of their missions;
* 4. To perform home defense in rear areas and such other services as the chief of staff, AFP may direct.

The PC covered a very extensive range of diversified missions that through the years did not fall under its primary responsibilities. By express provision of law, the PC enforced the motor vehicle law, fishing and games law, the alien law for registration and fingerprinting, and anti-dummy law, and the nationalization of retail trade law. By direction of the president, it enforced the tenancy law, the law on scrap metal, iron and gold, a ban on slaughter of water buffalo or carabao, and other laws. By deputation, it enforced the immigration law, customs law, forestry law, quarantine law, election law, public service law, and amusement law and weight and standards on rice. As a civic function, it performed in conjunction with the [[Department of Social Welfare and Development]] (DSWD) and the Red Cross disaster relief operations during natural calamities and the like, alongside other organizations in later years. The security of VIPs was a routine requirement for the constabulary.