The higher administrative positions have always been filled by detailing regular officers of the United States army.
The constabulary soldiers are now neatly uniformed, armed with Krag carbines and well disciplined.

They show the effect of good and regular food and of systematic exercise, their physical condition being vastly superior to that of the average Filipino.

They are given regular instruction in their military duties.

It is conducted in English.
The Philippine constabulary may be defined as a body of armed men with a military organization, recruited from among the people of the islands, officered in part by Americans and in part by Filipinos, and employed primarily for police duty in connection with the establishment and maintenance of public order.
Blount's chapters on the administrations of Taft, Wright and Smith embody one prolonged plaint to the effect that the organization of the constabulary was premature, and that after the war proper ended, the last smouldering embers of armed and organized insurrection should have been stamped out, and the brigandage which had existed in the Philippines for centuries should have been dealt with, by the United States army rather than by the constabulary.
Even if it were true that the army could have rendered more effective service to this end than could have been expected at the outset from a newly organized body of Filipino soldiers, the argument against the organization and use of the constabulary would in my opinion have been by no means conclusive.

It is our declared policy to prepare the Filipinos to establish and maintain a stable government of their own.