Abstract. In this note we consider the monoid PODIn of all monotone partial permutations on {1, . . . , n} and its submonoids DPn, POIn and ODPn of all partial isometries, of all order-preserving partial permutations and of all order-preserving partial isometries, respectively. We prove that both the monoids POIn and ODPn are quotients of bilateral semidirect products of two of their remarkable submonoids, namely of extensive and of co-extensive transformations. Moreover, we show that PODIn is a quotient of a semidirect product of POIn and the group C 2 of order two and, analogously, DPn is a quotient of a semidirect product of ODPn and C 2 .