PPA, if qualified under the existing Probation

Law. This is to stay true to the Restorative Services

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best interest of these children.
To strengthen PPA’s rehabilitation
efforts, Executive Order No. 468 dated October
nvestigation Parole and Probation
11, 2005, was issued to revitalize the Volunteer
Probation Aide Program now called Volunteer
To properly screen, select and place offend-
ers in a community-based treatment program,
Administration
Probation Assistant (VPA). This places PPA investigation is conducted in probation, parole, Redeeming lives. Restoring relationships.
in the forefront in relation to crime preven- executive clemency or suspended sentence for first
tion, treatment of offenders in a community- -time minor drug offenders.

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based setting, and the overall efforts in the
administration of criminal justice.
upervision
The monitoring of selected offenders in a
 PROBATION is a privilege granted by the community correction program to ensure
court to a person convicted of a criminal strict adherence to and compliance with the terms

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offense to remain in the community instead of and conditions attached to their conditional re-
actually going to prison / jail. lease whether probation, parole, pardon with parole
 PAROLE is the conditional release of a condition or suspended sentence, and likewise pre-
prisoner from correctional institution after vent further reoffending.
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serving the minimum period of prison
sentence. ehabilitation
 EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY. Under This is the “meat and bone” of community
Section 19, Article VII of the Constitution, the -based correction. PPA employs the com-
President may grant reprieves, commuta- munity-based intervention through a three-pronged
tions and pardons, and remit fines and for- approach: Restorative Justice (RJ), Therapeutic
feitures, after conviction by final judgment. Community (TC), and Volunteerism through Volunteer
Executive clemency rests exclusively within Probation Assistant (VPA).
the sound discretion of the President.
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Brief History Finally, on July 24, 1976, President

T o rehabilitate probationers, parolees and Ferdinand E. Marcos signed the proposed decree

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pardonees and promote their development as he adult probation as a reformation idea known as Presidential Decree No. 968 (PD 968) or
integral persons by utilizing innovative interventions was twice attempted to be implanted in the “Adult Probation Law of 1976”. With its enact-
and techniques which respect the dignity of man and the country’s justice system. First was in 1935 and ment, it created the Probation Administration. The
recognize his divine destiny. late Congressman Teodulo C. Natividad recognized
second in 1972.
as the Father of Philippine Probation was appointed
On August 7, 1935, the Philippine Legisla-
its first Administrator.
Vision ture passed Act No. 4221. This Act created the
With PD 968, probation became an added
Probation Office under the Department of Justice,
headed by a Chief Probation Officer appointed by the component of Philippine Corrections System and

A model component of the Philippine Correctional

System that shall enhance the quality of life of its
clients through multi-disciplinary programs and
American Governor-General with the advice and
consent of the US Senate. The Act also granted
proved its institutional worth.
On November 23, 1989, with the passage of
probation to first-time offenders 18 years old above Executive Order No. 292 or “The Administrative Code
resources, an efficient organization and a highly
and convicted of certain crimes. However, two years of 1987”, the Probation Administration became
professional and committed workforce in order to
after its implementation, on November 16, 1937, the PAROLE AND PROBATION ADMINISTRATION
promote social justice and development.
Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional because (PPA). EO 292 expanded PPA’s mandate to include
of its constitutional and procedural defect. supervised treatment of released prisoners, who after
Goals In 1972, House Bill No. 393 was filed in the serving a part of their sentence are released on
Congress with the purpose of establishing a probation parole or granted presidential pardon with parole
system in the country. Its provisions removed the conditions.
1. To promote the correction and rehabilitation of an
defects of the previous law that made it constitutional- In line with this expanded function, the Board
offender by providing him with personalized
ly and procedurally defective. Despite the Congress of Pardons and Parole issued BPP Resolution No.
community-based treatment;
2. To provide an opportunity for his reformation and passing the bill, HB No. 393 gathered dust in the 229 dated April 1991 granting PPA the authority to
reintegration into the community; Senate of the Philippines upon declaration of Martial conduct pre-parole or pre-executive clemency investi-
3. To prevent the commission of offense; and Law. gation on prisoners detained in local and national
4. To uplift and redeem valuable human material to In 1975, the late Assemblyman Teodulo C. jails and prisons.
economic usefulness and to prevent unnecessary Natividad introduced another proposed probation Additionally, the investigation and supervi-
and excessive deprivation of personal liberty. decree. The proposed decree was presented on April sion of First-time Minor Drug Offenders (FTMDO)
24, 1976, at the seminar on probation system placed under suspended sentence became another
sponsored by the National Police Commission responsibility of PPA. This is in pursuant to Sections
Mandate (NAPOLCOM) at the UP Law Center. It was also 66, 68 and 81(b) of Republic Act No. 9165 or “The
presented at the First National Conference on Crime Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002”, of

T he Parole and Probation Administration (PPA) is Control on July 22-24, 1976. The bill underwent DDB Resolution No. 2 dated July 19, 2005, and the
mandated to conserve and/or redeem convicted eighteen (18) technical hearings and submitted to a Memorandum of Agreement between Dangerous
offenders and prisoners who are under the probation selected group of jurists, penologists, civil leaders, Drugs Board and PPA. However, with RA No. 9344
and parole system. social and behavioral scientists and law practitioners enacted known as “The Juvenile Justice Welfare Act
before it was endorsed for approval. of 2006”, these minor drug offenders were now
included in the probation supervision program of