Duterte reorganizes intel advisory body

From Malaya Business Insight (Sep 26): Duterte reorganizes intel advisory body

PRESIDENT Duterte has reorganized the National Intelligence Committee (NIC), the advisory body to the director general of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA), to promote unity and cohesion of the intelligence community as well as remove duplication of intelligence activities.

The President, in signing Administrative Order 7 on September 22, included the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Coast Guard, and the Office for Transportation Security in the advisory body; removed the Presidential Security Group; and retained the Department of Foreign Affairs, the NBI, Bureau of Customs, the Armed Forces and the PNP.
The new order states that the highest ranking intelligence officers of the nine agencies will form part of NIC.

The AO also retained the NICA director general as chairman of NIC, and will continue to be assisted by the regional intelligence committees that had been institutionalized in the regions to promote and enhance intelligence fusion.

The President said the reorganizing of NIC is necessary to “provide more focused and clearer delineation of tasks among units/agencies involved in the gathering of intelligence on national security issues and concerns, in order to preclude unnecessary duplication of intelligence activities, ensure complete coverage of the intelligence concerns as well as promote the judicious use of government resources”.

NIC was created through Administrative Order 3 (s.2003) to serve as the advisory body to the NICA director general and for the coordination, integration, and fusion of all intelligence activities and preparation of national intelligence estimates for local and international situations, and address issues of national intelligence concerns. 

The current NICA head is Alex Agudo.

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