Complaints and Investigation Office of the Office of the President as the Administration Arm of the TANODBAYAN

February 28, 1979

LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 820

WHEREAS, the Office of the OMBUDSMAN to be known as TANODBAYAN, created under Presidential Decree No. 1487, is empowered to receive complaints from any person against any administrative agency, public official or employee for the purpose of determining his culpability; and cd i

WHEREAS, the TANODBAYAN is authorized to avail itself of the assistance of any government agency in the performance of its functions;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby direct that the Complaints and Investigation Office of the Office of the President shall, in addition to its functions under existing laws, serve as the administration arm of the TANODBAYAN.

This LOI shall be effective as of December 1, 1978, the date when the TANODBAYAN was appointed. acd

DONE in the City of Manila, this 28th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Nine.