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Rafael Cramé. Camp General Rafael T. Crame (Tagalog: [ˈkramɛ]) is the national headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP) located along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Quezon City. It is situated across EDSA from Camp Aguinaldo, the national headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
1902–1927. 1881–1898. Rank. Brigadier general. Captain (Spanish Army) Battles/wars. Philippine Revolution. Rafael Crame y Pérez de Tagle (October 2, 1863 - January 1, 1927) was a Filipino Constabulary officer who served as Chief of the former Philippine Constabulary from 1917 until his death in 1927.
The Philippine National Police (Filipino: Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas, abbreviated as PNP) is the armed national police force in the Philippines. Its national headquarters is located at Camp Crame in Bagong Lipunan ng Crame, Quezon City. Currently, it has approximately 228,000 personnel to police a population in excess of 100 million.
Political detainees were held in the various military camps in the capital - there were five detention centers in Camp Crame, the three detention centers in Camp Bonifacio, and the New Bilibid Prisons and a detention center in Bicutan all held a large number of prisoners. [6]
Tension rises as helicopters approach Camp Crame. Seven Sikorskys armed with rockets and cannons land inside the camp. These were the helicopters coming from the 15th Strike Wing and these, together several of their helicopter crews defect to the people and the Enrile-Ramos camp upon landing in the grounds of the camp, much to their delight.
August 1987 Philippine coup attempt. Date. August 27-29, 1987. Location. Villamor Airbase, Camp Aguinaldo, Malacañang Palace and portions of Manila, Quezon City, Pampanga, Albay, Central Visayas and Cagayan. Result. Philippine government victory. Coup averted. Flight of Honasan and arrest of coup plotters, financiers and leaders but some were ...
Two Constables posing for a photo in the New York Tribune in 1905. Philippine Constabulary in 1910. The Philippine Constabulary (PC) was established on August 18, 1901, under the general supervision of the civil Governor-General of the Philippines, by the authority of Act. No. 175 of the Second Philippine Commission, to maintain peace, law, and order in the various provinces of the Philippine ...
As the headquarters of the Philippine Constabulary, Camp Crame became the site of five of the Marcos regime's most infamous detention facilities for political prisoners: the Men's Detention Center; the Women's Detention Center, the PC (Philippine Constabulary) Stockade; the MetroCom (Metropolitan Command) Detention Area; and the CIS (Criminal ...