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defined planning as “thinking about the future, thinking about what we want the future would be, and thinking about what we need to do now to achieve it.”
Hudzik and Cordner
“thinking about the future, thinking about what we want the future would be, and thinking about what we need to do now to achieve it.”
planning
is a management function concerned with visualizing future situations, making estimates concerning them, identifying issues, needs and potential danger points, analyzing and evaluating the alternative ways and means for reaching desired goals according to a certain schedule, estimating the necessary funds, and resources to do the work, and initiating action in time to prepare what may be needed to cope with the changing conditions and contingent events.
Planning
is an attempt by police administrators in trying to allocate anticipated resources to meet anticipated service demands
Police Planning
It is the systematic and orderly determination of facts and events as basis for policy formulation and decision affecting law enforcement management.
Police Planning
is the use of rational design or pattern for all departmental undertaking rather than relying on change in an operational environment.
Operational Planning
It is the preparation and development of procedures and techniques in accomplishing of each of the primary tasks and functions of an organization.
Operational Planning
is the act of determining policies and guidelines for police activities and operations and providing controls and safeguards for such activities and operations in the department
Police Operational Planning
It may also be the process of formulating coordinated sequence of methodical activities and allocation of resources to the line units of the police organization for the attainment of the mandated objectives or goals.
Police Operational Planning
are a specific commitment to achieve a measurable result within a specific period of time.
Objectives
Making choices about ___ is one of the most important aspects of planning.
goals
are general statement of intention and typically with time horizon, or it is an achievable end state that can be measured and observed.
Goals
The process of _____ involves strategies or tactics, procedures, policies or guidelines
police operational planning
is a broad design or method; or a plan to attain a stated goal or objectives
Strategy
are specific design, method or course of action to attain a particular objective in consonance with strategy.
Strategy
are sequences of activities to reach a point or to attain what is desired.
Procedures
are rules of action for the rank and file to show them how they are expected to obtain the desired effect.
Guidelines
is a product of prudence or wisdom in the management of human affairs, or policy is a course of action which could be a program of actions adopted by an individual, group, organization, or government, or the set of principles on which they are based.
policy
The reasons for Strategic Planning are:
VISION
LONG-RANGE THINKING
-is a series of preliminary decisions on a framework, which in turn guides subsequent decisions that generate the nature and direction of an organization.
-This is usually long range in nature
Strategic planning
what a police department should be
VISION
– Keeping in mind that strategy is deciding where we want to be
LONG-RANGE THINKING
provides that “The State shall establish and maintain one police force, which shall be national in scope and civilian in character, to be administered and controlled by a national police commission. The authority of local executives over the police units in their jurisdiction shall be provided by law.”
Article XVI, Section 6 of the 1987 Constitution
Article XVI, Section 6 of the 1987 Constitution provides that “The State shall establish and maintain ____, which shall be _____, to be administered and controlled by a _____. The authority of ____ over the police units in their jurisdiction shall be provided by law.”
one police force
national in scope and civilian in character
national police commission
local executives
Its jurisdiction covers the entire breadth of the Philippine archipelago all uniformed and non-uniformed personnel of the PNP are national government employees.
Philippine National Police
as an agency is operated by the national government
Philippine National Police
Its jurisdiction covers the entire breadth of the Philippine archipelago all uniformed and non-uniformed personnel of the PNP are ___
national government employees.
as an organization is not a part of the military organization, although it retains some military attributes such as discipline.
PNP
PNP as an organization is not a part of the military organization, although it retains some military attributes such as
discipline.
PNP as an organization is not a part of the military organization, although it retains some military attributes such as discipline.
Civilian in Character
The Philippine National Police as an agency is operated by the national government. Its jurisdiction covers the entire breadth of the Philippine archipelago all uniformed and non-uniformed personnel of the PNP are national government employees.
National in Scope
Fit and appropriate to the PNP slogan of ____ other than the powers and functions as stipulated
“TO SERVE AND PROTECT”
No police operation shall be conducted in order to serve or protect the illegal activity of a particular person, group or criminal syndicate.
- To Serve and Protect
as a public service organization is also task to perform non-law enforcement related activities such as civic duties during disasters and calamities, guiding motorist in the absence of traffic enforcers, pacify domestic quarrels without resorting to apprehension and much more activities that come to their daily routine
PNP
Police being a service-oriented agency should perform or spearhead activities to win the _____ of the people it serves.
TRUST and CONFIDENCE
Functions Of a Police Officer in Operations
- To Serve and Protect
- To Observe Human Rights and Dignity of Person
The responsibility of every police officer is
to serve the public and protect life and property.
- All PNP personnel shall respect the human rights and dignity of the suspect/s during police operations.
- To Observe Human Rights and Dignity of Person
KINDS OF POLICE PLAN:
- Policy or Procedural Plan
- Tactical Plans
- Operational Plans
- Extra-Office/Departmental Plans
- Management Plans
– these are standard operating procedures that guide members in the field and routine operations and in some special operations.
- Policy or Procedural Plan
types of Policy or Procedural Plans
a) Field Procedures
b) Headquarters Procedures
c) Special Operation Procedures
– procedures intended to be used in all situations of all kinds, shall be outlined as a guide to officers and men in the field.
a) Field Procedures
Procedures that relate to reporting, to dispatching, to raids, stopping suspicious persons, receiving complaints, touring beat, and investigation of crimes.
a) Field Procedures
– these are the duties of dispatcher, jailer, matron and other personnel, concerned which may be reflected in the duty manual.
b) Headquarters Procedures
- procedures that involved coordinated action on activity of several offices; however, should be established separately as in the case of using telephone for local/long distance calls, the radio teletype, and other similar devices.
b) Headquarters Procedures
– certain special operations also necessitate the preparation of procedures as guides.
c) Special Operation Procedures
Included are the operation of the special unit charged with the searching and preservation of physical evidence at crime scenes and accidents, the control of licenses, dissemination of information about wanted persons, inspection of the PNP headquarters, and the like.
c) Special Operation Procedures
– procedure for coping with specific situations at known locations.
- Tactical Plans
Included in this category are plans to deal with an attack against the PNP police headquarters against lawless elements
- Tactical Plans
Plans should likewise be made for blockage and jail emergencies and for special community events, such as larger public meetings, athletic contests, parades, religious celebrations, carnivals, demonstrations and other street affairs.
- Tactical Plans
– this pertains to plans of division: they are prepared to accomplish each of the primary police tasks
- Operational Plans
they are prepared to accomplish each of the primary police tasks such as:
a. Patrol Division
b. Investigation Division
c. Traffic Control Division
d. Vice Control Division
e. Juvenile Control Division
- Operational Plans
– the active interest and the participation of individual citizen is also a vital to the success of the PNP programs that the PNP shall continuously seek to motivate, promote and maintain an active public concern in its affairs.
- Extra-Office/Departmental Plans
Operational Plans tasks are:
a. Patrol Division
b. Investigation Division
c. Traffic Control Division
d. Vice Control Division
e. Juvenile Control Division
These are plans made to organize the community to assist in the accomplishment of objectives in the fields of traffic control, organize crime, and juvenile delinquency prevention.
- Extra-Office/Departmental Plans
The organization may be called safety councils for crime commissions and community councils for delinquency prevention.
- Extra-Office/Departmental Plans
They shall assist in coordinating community effort, in promoting public support, and in combating organized crime.
- Extra-Office/Departmental Plans
Organization and operating plans for civil defense shall also be prepared or used in case of emergency or war in coordination with the office of the Civil Defense.
- Extra-Office/Departmental Plans
Management Plans are the
a. Budget Planning
b. Accounting Procedures
c. Specifications and Purchasing Procedures
d. Personnel
e. Organization
– it includes budget planning; accounting procedures; specifications; personnel; and organization.
- Management Plans
– present and future money needs for personal, equipment and capital investments must be estimated
a. Budget Planning
Plans for supporting budget request must be made if needed appropriations are to be obtained.
a. Budget Planning
– procedures shall be established, and expenditure reports be provided to assist in making administrative decisions and holding expenditures within the appropriations.
b. Accounting Procedures
shall be drawn for equipment and supplies
Specifications
Plans and specifications shall be drafted for new buildings and for modeling old ones.
c. Specifications and Purchasing Procedures
should likewise be established to insure the checking of deliveries against specification of orders
Purchasing procedures
– procedures shall be established to assure the carrying out of personnel programs and the allocation of personnel among the component organization units in proportions need.
d. Personnel
– a basic organization plan of the command/unit shall be made and be posted for the guidance of the force.
e. Organization
For the ____ to be meaningful, it shall be accompanied by the duty manual which shall define relationships between the component units in terms of specific responsibilities.
e. Organization
incorporates rules and regulations and shall contain the following: definition of terms, organization of rank, and the like, provided the same shall not be in conflict with this manual.
duty manual
Steps in Police Operational Planning:
- Frame of Reference
- Clarifying the Problem
- Collecting all pertinent facts
- Analyzing the facts
- Developing alternative plans
- Selecting the most appropriate alternative
- Selling the plan
- Arranging for the execution of the plan
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the plan
– based on a careful view of the matters relating to the situation for which plans are being developed.
- Frame of Reference
– these calls for the identification of the problem, understanding both its record and its possible solution.
- Clarifying the Problem
– no attempt shall be made to develop a plan until all facts relating to it have been gathered.
- Collecting all pertinent facts
. In the series of robberies, all cases on files shall be carefully reviewed to determine the modus operandi, suspects, type of victims and such other information as may be necessary.
- Collecting all pertinent facts
Facts relating to such matters as availability, deployment, and the use of present personnel shall be gathered.
- Collecting all pertinent facts
– after all date have been gathered a careful analysis and evaluation shall be made.
- Analyzing the facts
This provides the basis from which a plan or plans have evolved.
- Analyzing the facts
Only such facts as may have relevance shall be considered.
- Analyzing the facts
– in the initial phases of plan development, several alternative measures shall appear to be logically comparable to the needs of a situation.
- Developing alternative plans
As the alternative solutions are evaluated, one of the proposed plans shall usually prove more logical than the others.
- Developing alternative plans
– a careful consideration of all facts usually leads to the selection of a “best” of alternative proposals.
- Selecting the most appropriate alternative
– a plan to be effectively carried out, must be accepted by persons concerned at the appropriate level of the plan’s development
- Selling the plan
– the execution of a plan requires the issuance of orders and directives to units and personnel concerned, the establishment of a schedule, and the provision of manpower and equipment carrying out the plan.
- Arranging for the execution of the plan
– the results of the plan shall be determined.
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the plan
This is necessary in order to know whether a correct alternative was chosen, whether or not the plan was correct, which phase was poorly implemented, and whether additional planning may be necessary.
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the plan
Also the effects of the executed plan on other operations and on total police operations shall be determined.
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the plan
is the control factor essential for effective command management.
Follow-up
Follow-up is the control factor essential for effective command management.
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the plan
Categories Of Police Operations
- Public Safety Operation
- Law Enforcement Operation
- Internal Security Operation
- Special Police Operation
- Intelligence Operation
- Investigation Operation
- Scene of the Crime Operation (SOCO)
Basic Requirements of Police Operations
- With marked police vehicle.
- Led by a Police Commissioned Officer (PCO)
- With personnel in prescribed police uniform or attire
During actual police intervention operations, the ___ shall use peaceful means including the use of megaphones or any other similar instruments to warn or influence the offender/s or suspect/s to stop and/or peacefully give up.
Team Leader
The police shall ___ warning shots during police intervention operations.
not use
Operations in the PNP shall be directed by the ____ to attain the following objectives
police commander
Operations in the PNP shall be directed by the police commander to attain the following objectives:
- Prevention of Crimes
- Repression or Suppression of Criminal Activities
- Preservation of Peace and Order
- Protection of Lives Properties
- Enforcement of Laws and Ordinances
- Apprehension of Criminals
- Coordination and Cooperation with other Agencies
- Safeguard Public Health and Morals
– This activity requires the members of the PNP to mingle with the members of the community where criminal activities originate and bred and criminalistic tendencies of individuals are motivated to indulge in anti-social behavior; and seek to minimize the causes of crime.
- Prevention of Crimes
This activity or mission also requires the individual members of the PNP to understand the people and the environment in which they live.
- Prevention of Crimes
– This activity or mission emphasizes the presence of an adequate patrol system including the continuous effort toward eliminating or reducing hazards as the principal means of reducing the opportunities for criminal action.
Repression or Suppression of Criminal Activities
The saying “the mouse will play while the cat is away” is equally true in law enforcement and in public safety.
Repression or Suppression of Criminal Activities
The presence of a policeman in uniform would be deterred or discouraged the would-be criminal or would-be offender-regulations. Crime repression means the elimination of the opportunity that exists on the part of the would-be criminal to commit a crime.
Repression or Suppression of Criminal Activities
– This activity or mission requires the individual members of the PNP to gain the sympathy of the community to close ranks in combating crimes and any other anti-social behavior of the non-conformists of the law and order.
- Preservation of Peace and Order
The community, therefore, should be informed through proper education, of their share and involvement in law enforcement and public safety.
- Preservation of Peace and Order
The policeman though, has a collateral responsibility in his obligation to protect life and property – a responsibility that is fundamental to every duty he performs.
- Protection of Lives Properties
– The responsibilities of the members of the PNP in providing for the safety and convenience of the public are analogous with those of the doctor.
- Protection of Lives Properties
The doctor protects life by combating diseases while the PNP promotes public safety of accidents and in guarding the citizens public safety by the elimination of hazards of accidents and in guarding the citizens against the attacks of the bad elements of the society.
- Protection of Lives Properties
The ___ protects life by combating diseases while the ___ promotes public safety of accidents and in guarding the citizens public safety by the elimination of hazards of accidents and in guarding the citizens against the attacks of the bad elements of the society.
doctor
PNP
The police have the obligation to preserve the citizen’s constitutional guarantees of liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
- Protection of Lives Properties
The policeman though, has a collateral responsibility in his obligation to ___ – a responsibility that is fundamental to every duty he performs
protect life and property
– a responsibility that is fundamental to every duty he performs
protect life and property
- these activities and mission requires the members of the PNP to constructively integrate or enforce and implement the laws of the land and city/municipal ordinances without regard to the personal circumstances of the individual citizens and any other persons sojourning in the Philippines.
- Enforcement of Laws and Ordinances
This is to provide tranquility among members of society.
- Enforcement of Laws and Ordinances
This makes use of warnings, either oral or written, which informs the citizen but not to personalize.
- Enforcement of Laws and Ordinances
– this activity defines specifically the power of the police as possessed by every member of the integrated police, as a means to discourage the would-be offender.
- Apprehension of Criminals
These also include the regulations of non-criminal conduct, specifically to obtain compliance through education of the public in the dangers inherent in the disobedience of regulations.
- Enforcement of Laws and Ordinances
The consequence of arrest and prosecution has a deterrent effect intended to make crime or any unlawful act less worthwhile.
- Apprehension of Criminals
Consequently, apprehension and the imposition of punishment for the corresponding unlawful act are committed, lessens repetition by causing suspects to be incarcerated, and provides an opportunity for reformation of those convicted by final judgment.
- Apprehension of Criminals
This activity also includes the recovery of stolen property in order to restrain those who are accessories to the crime and thereby benefiting from the gains of crime.
- Apprehension of Criminals
Consequently, ____ for the corresponding unlawful act are committed, lessens repetition by causing suspects to be incarcerated, and provides an opportunity for reformation of those convicted by final judgment.
apprehension and the imposition of punishment
The consequence of ___ has a deterrent effect intended to make crime or any unlawful act less worthwhile.
arrest and prosecution
– This activity requires the duty of a commander of any unit of the PNP and its unit subordinates to establish report or good relationship with other law enforcement agencies of the government.
- Coordination and Cooperation with other Agencies
Through rapport, a police station commander and his subordinates may be able to maintain a harmonious working relationship with other law enforcement agencies of the government whereby coordination and cooperation between them maybe established.
- Coordination and Cooperation with other Agencies
Coordination is an essential conduct of command.
- Coordination and Cooperation with other Agencies
is an essential conduct of command
Coordination
shall include personnel, intelligence, inspection, planning, budgeting, training and public relations. These tasks shall assist and effectively support both the primary and secondary tasks in the attainment of their objectives.
administrative or managerial tasks
– This involves many activities or mission peripheral to basic law enforcement and public safety.
- Safeguard Public Health and Morals
Such as for instance, sanitation, search and rescue operations, licensing, inspection of buildings in order to determine whether or not the Presidential Decree on fire prevention is strictly obeyed.
- Safeguard Public Health and Morals
This also includes supervising elections, escorts duties, civic actions, and many other activities or missions related to law-enforcement and public safety.
- Safeguard Public Health and Morals
Classification of Police Functions
primary or line operation tasks
Auxiliary or service tasks
administrative or managerial tasks
shall include patrol, investigation, traffic, vice and juvenile control. Accomplishment of these primary tasks shall achieve the main objective of the PNP.
primary or line operation tasks
shall include records, property, jail, crime laboratory, transportation and communication. These tasks shall assist and effectively support the primary task in the accomplishment of the objective.
Auxiliary or service tasks
- is a tool to ensure for the accomplishment of the public safety objectives and mission, its components such as the police, fire, and jail operations must adopt the utmost skill and careful planning.
POLICE PLANNING
These are plans designed for operations of operation divisions like the patrol, detectives, traffic, fire, and juvenile control divisions.
- Operational Plans
These plans are prepared for the effectiveness of carrying out primary police tasks
- Operational Plans
For instance, patrol activities are outlined in a way to cover the areas which are seen as crime-prone areas and its units distributed based on the needs of service and special details as forecasted by the decision-makers.
- Operational Plans
Similar plans are needed in crime prevention programs, juvenile and vice control require mapping of activities in an orderly manner to attain maximum effectiveness of its operation.
- Operational Plans
An organization within an organization.
POLICE PATROL/PATROL FORCE
It serves as the nucleus or focal point of the department
POLICE PATROL/PATROL FORCE
POLICE PATROL/PATROL FORCE FUNCTIONS
- Patrol Function = 50%
- Criminal Investigation = 15%
- Traffic Functions = 10%
- Vice and Juvenile Related Functions = 10%
- Administrative Functions = 10%
- Auxiliary Functions = 5%
— On the average nationwide, the manning levels of the PNP shall be approximately in accordance with a police–to–population ratio of
one (1) policeman for every five hundred (500) persons.
The actual strength by cities and municipalities shall depend on
the state of peace and order, population density and actual demands of the service in the particular area
Provided, That the minimum police–to–population ratio shall not be less than
one (1) policeman for every one thousand (1,000) persons
shall have a higher minimum police–to–population ratio as may be prescribed by regulations.
urban areas
Types Of Patrol
- Foot Patrol
- Automobile Patrol
- Helicopter Patrol
- Canine(K9) Patrol or Dog Patrol
- Bicycle Patrol
- Cyber Patrol
– it is the most expensive type of patrol in terms of human resources and most departments had reduced their foot patrols to a minimum because of this.
Foot Patrol
Types of Foot Patrol
a. Fixed Foot Patrol
b. Mobile Foot Patrol
– used where there is considerable foot movement such as business and shopping center, family dwellings and the like.
b. Mobile Foot Patrol
– this patrol is usually used for traffic, surveillance, parades and special events.
a. Fixed Foot Patrol
– is the most economical type of patrol and offers tactical ability when used in numbers.
- Automobile Patrol
It is considered as the most extensively used and most effective means of transportation for police patrol.
- Automobile Patrol
– the most expensive type of patrol in terms of financial resources.
- Helicopter Patrol
are costly which makes procurement a challenge
Helicopters
Usually, this type of patrol is used in securing a vast area.
- Helicopter Patrol
– a type of patrol that used canine dogs to detect explosives and illegal drugs in a luggage.
- Canine(K9) Patrol or Dog Patrol
– a type of patrol that utilizes bicycle in monitoring an area.
- Bicycle Patrol
– the latest type of patrol where police officers savvy with the computer technology monitor computer data and transactions to detect crimes such as money laundering, pornography, prostitution, human trafficking, and others.
- Cyber Patrol
Objectives Of Police Patrol
- Preventive Enforcement
- Selective Enforcement
- Traffic Enforcement
- Emergency Call for Service
It can gain access to small alleys which makes crime prevention more effective.
- Bicycle Patrol
- falls under the heading of protection and involves the prevention of crime through the noticeable presence of police vehicles and personnel.
- Preventive Enforcement
- Large police departments have traffic divisions, but the majorities of the departments are small, and have only patrol division to handle traffic enforcement.
- Traffic Enforcement
- One of the duties and purposes of patrol is the handling of emergency calls for service.
- Emergency Call for Service
- This involves going either where the trouble is, or where the trouble likely to occur.
- Selective Enforcement
PATROL TACTICS AND STRATEGIES
I. The Psychology of Omnipresence
II. Proactive and Reactive Patrol
III. Crime Prevention and Crime Suppression
IV. High and Low Visibility
V. Directed, Interactive and Aggressive Patrol
VI. Stop and Frisk
VII. Street Interview/Interrogation
VIII. Decoy
as an initial police strategy is to establish the aura of police presence in the community through uniformed foot patrol and mobile (marked and equipped) patrol cars.
I. The Psychology of Omnipresence
- Patrol officer cannot detect the thinking or desire of the criminal, yet he can destroy the opportunity to commit a crime by his presence, thus, it best for crime prevention.
I. The Psychology of Omnipresence
Strategic Objectives:
a. High visibility police presence
b. Feeling of security of law abiding
c. Feeling of fear for would be criminal
d. Feeling of confidence for the public that police are constantly available
I. The Psychology of Omnipresence
it is the deployment of patrol officers in their area with prescribe objectives and verifiable task for the day.
Proactive Patrol
– it involves going around the area of responsibility waiting for something to happen and to react according if something does happen
Reactive Patrol
– it involves in recognition of crime risk and initiation of positive action to remove or reduce risk.
Crime Prevention
– is the actual prevention of the commission of crime
Crime Suppression
– not just presence of patrol officer but actual presence
Police Visibility
Police Visibility involves
1) Physical Presence
2) Patrolling Scheme
3) Response Time
– is the running time of the dispatched patrol car from his position where the assignment was received and the arrival at the scene
3) Response Time
the ideal time for response time
5 minutes
– It is the time between the call of concerned individual to the police regarding crime incident and the arrival at the scene of patrol officer.
Critical Time
– it is accomplished by deploying uniformed patrol officers and marked patrol cars in the AOR with the objective of increasing the “aura of police omnipresence”.
- High Visibility
– a strategy wherein patrol officers are in civilian clothes or in unmarked patrol cars with the primary purpose of increasing the apprehension of criminal engage in street crimes and deterrence of criminal activity as a result of greater probability.
- Low Visibility
– patrol activities designed by patrol officers are based on analysis of specific community problems.
- Directed Patrol Strategy
The emphasis is on participative decision making and sophisticated methods of crime analysis.
- Directed Patrol Strategy
– the emphasis is on police-citizen interaction wherein the community input is sought in resolving patrol problems.
- Interactive Patrol Strategy
This heightens the effect of high visibility
VI. Stop and Frisk
– the emphasis is on positive, target oriented activities which includes physical security inspection.
- Aggressive Patrol Strategy
This is effective if the information regarding identifiable crime trends is based on crime analysis
- Aggressive Patrol Strategy
It involves stopping of person on the street whose behavior is suspicious, questioning them and frisking them for concealed weapons.
VI. Stop and Frisk
It is an aspect of stop and frisk strategy where individuals of doubtful character are being questioned.
VII. Street Interview/Interrogation
means trap, bait or induce
VIII. Decoy
This strategy involves disguise or deception which is specifically used in high crimes areas by highly trained specialist rather that regular patrol officers.
VIII. Decoy
In the conduct of checkpoint proper, the checkpoint team shall be composed of, but not limited to, the following:
a. Team Leader (TL)
b. Spotter
c. Spokesperson
d. Investigation Sub-team
e. Search/Arresting Sub-Team
f. Security Sub-Team
g. Blocking/Pursuing Sub-Team
- shall lead and take responsibility in the conduct of checkpoint preferably an officer with the rank of at least Police Inspector;
a. Team Leader (TL)
- PNP personnel who will point/profile suspected vehicle subject for checkpoint;
b. Spotter
- TL or member who is solely in charge of communicating with the motorists subject for checkpoint;
c. Spokesperson
- in charge of investigation and documentation of possible incidents in the checkpoint to include issuance of Traffic Citation Ticket (TCT) or Traffic Violation Report (TVR);
d. Investigation Sub-team
- designated to conduct search, seizure and arrest, if necessary;
e. Search/Arresting Sub-Team
- tasked to provide security in the checkpoint area; and
f. Security Sub-Team
- team tasked to block/pursue fleeing suspects/vehicle.
g. Blocking/Pursuing Sub-Team
are authorized only when established in conjunction with ongoing police operations.
a. Mobile checkpoints
Only officially marked vehicles with blinkers turned on, if available, shall be used in establishing ___
mobile checkpoints.
are established to enforce circulation control measure, laws, orders and regulations
b. Checkpoints
c. The use of mixed uniforms (GOA, Field service uniforms, black fatigue) in the conduct of checkpoint is
strictly prohibited
d. As much as possible, the area where the checkpoint shall be established must be ____ and the participating organization/s visibly displayed in the checkpoint site, to prevent any apprehension from the public of the existence of the same.
properly lighted, with a noticeable signage bearing the name of the PNP unit
e. ___ must be accorded to the motorists, traders and the commuters during the conduct of checkpoint.
Due courtesy
must greet the people subject for inspection, extend apology for the inconvenience, appeal for understanding and state the reasons of the operation. Upon completion, thank the person/s searched.
spokesperson
g. Except in the actual commission of crime during checkpoints or in a hot pursuit operation, the conduct of inspection of vehicle during a routine checkpoint is limited to a
visual search
from the traders/motorists passing the checkpoint should be absolutely refused because the offer might be misconstrued as a bribe.
h. Voluntary offers of cash or in kind
h. Voluntary offers of cash or in kind from the traders/motorists passing the checkpoint should be absolutely refused because the offer might be misconstrued as a __
bribe.
