Editing Philippine Constabulary (section)

===Post-Marcos era and dissolution===
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The need to assert [[civilian control of the military]] was a reform agenda which began being addressed almost as soon as [[Ferdinand Marcos]] was deposed by the 1986 [[People Power Revolution]]; within a year of Marcos' ouster, the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines enshrined the principle of civilian supremacy over the military.<ref name="MEI">{{cite web |title=Security Sector Reform in the Philippines |url=https://www.mei.edu/publications/security-sector-reform-philippines |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106065411/http://www.mei.edu/publications/security-sector-reform-philippines |archive-date=2018-11-06 |access-date=2021-09-05 |website=Middle East Institute |language=en}}</ref>

After the various [[Coup attempts against Corazon Aquino|coup attempts of the 1980s]], the recommendations of the [[Davide Commission]] included the dissolution of the Philippine Constabulary as a service under the AFP.<ref name=about>[http://www.pnp.gov.ph/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46:about-the-philippine-national-police&catid=25:organization&Itemid=56 About the Philippine National police] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326192226/http://www.pnp.gov.ph/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46:about-the-philippine-national-police&catid=25:organization&Itemid=56 |date=March 26, 2012 }}</ref>  It was abolished in the early 1990s in a merger with the Integrated National Police.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Why Duterte wants to revive Philippine Constabulary |work=[[ABS-CBN News]] |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/06/17/why-duterte-wants-to-revive-philippine-constabulary}}</ref>

In 1991, it was determined that a new civilian [[Philippine National Police]] was to be formed by merging the [[Integrated National Police]] into the Philippine Constabulary, with the PC forming the basis as it had the more developed infrastructure. The PC was then removed from the [[Department of National Defense (Philippines)|Ministry of National Defense]] and eventually civilianized, as part of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, through attrition and recruitment of new personnel.

In 2017, President [[Rodrigo Duterte]] contemplated reviving the Constabulary to augment the manpower of the [[Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/06/17/why-duterte-wants-to-revive-philippine-constabulary|title=Why Duterte wants to revive Philippine Constabulary|first=Arianne|last=Merez|website=ABS-CBN News|date=February 6, 2017}}</ref> with presidential spokesperson [[Ernesto Abella]] announcing the planned revival.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.philstar.com/happens/191|title=Planned revival of Philippine Constabulary|date=January 31, 2017|newspaper=The Philippine Star}}</ref>{{update inline|date=July 2023}} This was never carried out after Duterte's term ended.