FC LEA Flashcards
I. INTER-AGENCY APPROACH
This term was interpreted as an authoritative
arm for those in power. It was used by the
Roman to modify the Greek root for the word
police.
A. Politia
Greek word means Government of the city
C. Politeia
specific statement within a specific time
objective
A purposefully organized social unit having a
reasonably distinct boundary that operates on a relatively continuous basis to pursue a
common objective or set of goals.
A. Organization
- What kind of organization has a scalar chain of authority for all operations and
administrative functions?
D. Line and staff
oldest and straight line, direct line from top to bottom; authorities is definite and absolute
LINE
individuals to contribute to the organization objective
unity of objective
accomplishment of the organizations objective with minimum cost
principle of organization efficiency
unbroken chain units from top to bottom
scalar principle
communication should ordinarily go upward
line of authority and chain of command
levels of authority shall kept to a minimum
span of control
Which of the following is relevant to the span of control concept when responsibilities are split among police officers by one overseeing supervisor who is present at all times?
C. Delegation of authority
Subordinates should only be under the control of one superior
B. Unity of command
- When there is only one supervisor, one plan
for a group of personnel assigned to an
activity with a common objective or goal,
there is ______________.
D. Unity of direction
- The study of the processes and conditions of
the Law Enforcement Pillar that is also called
“Police in Action.”
D. Police Administration
- Which of the following must be considered
while determining the supervisor’s span of
control?
A. The number of cases that must be
worked on with the supervisors.
B. He is mindful of the number of
subordinates who will report
directly to him/her.
C. The aims and goals that must be met.
D. The total number of supervisors required
to manage a group.
B. He is mindful of the number of
subordinates who will report
directly to him/her.
- Which of the following is a functional unit
inside a division that requires specialization?
A. Section
- Which of the following managerial duties
entail recruiting, dismissing, and training of
employees?
A. Staffing
- What happens when an organization’s
structure is broken into separate units, each
focusing on a certain job to complete in order
to become an expert in a particular skill?
C. Specialization
- What are the precise and quantifiable
approaches for every organization to achieve
its goals?
B. Objective
- Because of the police force’s pyramid-shaped
with a single line organization, commissioned
and non-commissioned officers do not have
equal authority and duties. This is referring to
__________.
C. Hierarchy
- Which of the following must be considered while determining the supervisor’s span of control?
A. The number of cases to work on with the
supervisors.
B. He has the knowledge of the
number or subordinates who will
directly report to him/her
C. The objectives and goals to be
accomplished.
D. The total number of supervisors to
handle a group.
B. He has the knowledge of the
number or subordinates who will
directly report to him/her
- How many Supervisors must be appointed to
a certain task in order to minimize
misunderstanding among subordinates?
A. One
- What principle is indicated by the requirement
that decision-making stay within the
commanding officer’s discretion and never be
referred upward or downward in the
organizational structure?
B. Authority level
- The rationale for having only one supervisor
for each group workforce.
C. To prevent misunderstanding
- It is a general declaration of intent, usually
with a time horizon of a year or more.
C. Goal
- Personnel with this type of responsibility do
not issue instructions, but rather provide
recommendations. This advice is frequently
based on a high degree of competence, but
there is no formal criterion for adoption.
D. Staff
- Those who are charged with the actual
fulfillment of the agency’s mission are
_________ personnel
D. Line
- The placement of a single superior in
command or Local Government Executives in
charge of every problem and personnel.
B. Unity of Command
- Except one, the following must be done to
enhance delegation.
A. Establish objectives and standards
B. Count the number of supervisors
C. Require complete work
D. Define authority and responsibility
B. Count the number of supervisors
- What principle is intended that decision-
making should remain within the authority of
the commanding officers and never referred
upward or downward in the organizational
structure?
B. Authority responsibility
- An illustration in the form of a chart which
represents the organizational structure. The
mechanical means of depicting the
organizational structure.
A. Organizational Chart
- An officer who has the more senior
rank/higher in a group or team.
D. Ranking Officer
- Direction that is provided on a one-to-one
basis is called _________.
B. Supervision
- For patrol purposes, what is the geographical
subdivision of a municipality or city?
District
- Administrative control and operational
supervision of the PNP is a power of
_________.
C. NAPOLCOM
- The operational supervision and control over the PNP assigned at cities and municipalities is a power of the _______.
C. Local Government Executives
- What article and specific section of the
Philippine Constitution of 1987 provides for
the establishment and maintenance of a
single police force that is national in scope but
civilian in nature, and is administratively
controlled and operationally supervised by the
National Police Commission?
C. Art. XVI, sec. 6, 1987 Philippine
Constitution
- It expresses in writing the function,
objectives/goals, and philosophy of any
organization. This refers to ________.
D. Mission – purpose/function/reason
of your existence
- The number of subordinates that one superior
may manage in any organization, such as the
PNP, tends to
C. Increase when tasks of
subordinates increase
- Which of the following statements about
delegation of authority is NOT correct?
A. It is connected to the span of control.
B. The delegation of authority continues all
the way down to the lowest level of
implementation.
C. The leaders of spaller units are granted
authority and responsibility.
D. Individual non-commissioned
officers are granted authority.
D. Individual non-commissioned
officers are granted authority.
- This is known as the Police Act of 1966, which
established the NAPOLCOM.
B. RA 4864
- Who is an Ex-Officio Chairman of the National
Police Commission?
B. DILG Secretary
- A _______ is a police officer who has
supervisory authority over lower-ranking
officers.
C. Superior
- What law was enacted when the PNP was
under the reorganized of the Department of
Interior and Local Government?
A. RA 6975
- How many deputies are assigned to the Chief
PNP to help him carry out his duties and
responsibilities?
C. Two
- Which of the following is a well-known
institution in charge of all uniformed PNP
officers’ education, training, and human
resource development?
D. PPSC
- According to RA 8551, any PNP member who
has not been promoted for a continuous
service period of ________ should be retired
or separated.
B. 10 yrs
- If the Chief PNP assumes his office in
February 8, 2010, his last day in office as the
Chief PNP will be on
B. Feb. 7, 2014
- What happens if a police officer fails to meet
an ongoing particular requirement for
employment with the PNP after a certain
amount of time?
A. Separated from the service if he is below
50 years of age and has served in
government for less than 20 years
B. Retired if he is from the age of 50 and
above and has served the government
for at least 20 years without prejudice in
either case to the payment of benefits he
may be entitled to under existing laws
C. Dismissed from the service if he is
either below or above 50 years of
age and rendered less than 20 years
of service
D. Both A or B
C. Dismissed from the service if he is
either below or above 50 years of
age and rendered less than 20 years
of service
- Police Inspectors and Police Superintendents
are appointed by the _________.
A. Chief, PNP
- The first Insular Police Force established by virtue of Act No. 175.
B. Insular Constabulary
- What directorate of the PNP maximizes the
utilization of uniformed and non-uniformed
personnel resources?
B. DPRM
- What PNP unit is in charge of administering
PNP personnel’s retirement and separation
benefits, as well as improving the morale and
welfare of PNP retirees?
D. PNP retirement and benefits
administration service
- What is the equivalent rank of PO3 in the
military?
D. Corporal
- What is the new rank classification of PO3?
D. Police Staff Sergeant
- Which of the following DPRM functions is NOT
included?
C. Regional Appellate Board of the
NAPOLCOM
- When does the NAPOLCOM suspend the
operational supervision and control powers
granted to Mayors and temporarily transfer
them to the COMELEC?
A. 30 days before and after any
national, local or barangay elections
- PNP officer benefits qualifying for early
retirement.
A. Two ranks higher
- Insubordination is an administrative infraction
referred to as
- Insubordination is an administrative infraction
referred to as
- When the utilization of elements of the PNP is directing for the goal of saving lives,
protecting property, enforcing laws, and
keeping peace and order, all of these pertains
to __________.
D. Employment
- What award will be bestowed to Insp. Carlo Aquino, after freeing a 5-year-old kid taken hostage at the Makati City coaster terminal, was shot by the hostage taker and died in the
hospital?
B. Posthumous
- What form of separation will a PNP officer
seek to apply after accumulating twenty years
of active service and deciding to retire?
B. Optional
- When P/Lt. Richard Guttierez was temporarily denied the opportunity of executing his police responsibilities; what penalty was imposed by the Chief of Police as a result of a recurrent
breach of rules and regulations?
A. Dismissal
- What type of appointment is provided to PNP applicants who have the general equivalent upgrading as a member of the Philippine
National Police?
B. Permanent
- Disciplinary authority where the offense is
punishable by withholding of privileges,
restriction to specified’ limits, suspension or
forfeiture of salary, or any combination
thereof, for a period of not less than sixteen
(16) days but not exceeding thirty (30) days.
B. City or Municipal Mayors
- Plans and policies for the career development
of PNP members; develops doctrines for the
structure, administration, and operation of
the PNP; and analyzes the training needs of
PNP personnel and units and develops
training programs and directives to meet
those needs.
A. Directorate for Human Resource
and Doctrine Development
- What criteria of promotion that refers to the
overall-length-of-service in the present rank?
C. Time-in-grade
- Any loss or impairment to a PNP member’s
normal mental and physical capabilities is
referred to as ________.
B. Disability
- To defend against external and internal
threats, to territorial integrity and sovereignty, and promote the welfare of the
people in order to create a secure and stable
environment conducive to national
development is the mission of the _____.
A. DND
- It is responsible for assessing and collecting
customs revenues, preventing illegal trade
and all types of customs fraud, and facilitating
commerce through an efficient and effective
Customs Management System.
A. Bureau of Customs
- What is the law that established the Council
of National Defense, forerunner of
Department of National Defense?
B. Executive Order number 3 Series of
1935
- One of the Bureau of Customs’ tasks is border control to prevent the entrance of smuggled
products. This statement is ______.
A. True
- What is the parent agency of the Bureau of Customs?
B. DoF
- It is in charge of administering and enforcing
immigration, citizenship, and alien admission
and registration regulations under the terms
of the Philippine Immigration Act of 1940. It
also helps execute RA 9208, popularly known
as the Anti-trafficking in Persons Act of 2003.
B. Bureau of Immigration
- What is the parent agency of the Bureau of Immigration?
A. DOJ
- The following organization is mandated and responsible to perform Maritime Search and Rescue, Maritime Law Enforcement, Maritime Safety, Marine Environmental Protection and Maritime Security?
D. Philippine Coast Guard
- The PCG function is intended to assist avoid or reduce needless loss of life and property at sea.
A. MARSAF
- It operates as a nationwide clearing house for criminal records and other government-
related information.
A. NBI
- The _________ acts as the principal law
agency (EO No. 292) and legal counsel of the
government.
C. DOJ
- Responsible for the efficient and effective
execution of all laws of RA 9165 pertaining to
any hazardous substance and/or restricted
precursor and essential chemical.
A. PDEA
- PDEA’s highest rank is
C. Undersecretary
- What should be the rank of Regional Director?
B. P/Brid. Gen.
- The process of screening out or eliminating
undesirable applicants who do not meet the
organization’s criteria.
C. Selection
- Pido successfully completed all PNP
formalities in order to be accepted into the
Field Training Program. What will his
situation be 11 months after completing the
aforementioned program?
C. Probationary
- What is the maximum tenure of a PNP
Provincial Director?
D. 9 yrs
- What is considered the manning level or
police to population ratio at the nationwide
coverage?
A. 1:500
- Which of the following functions of DPRM is not included?
D. Disbursement of funds for security
- The PNP though ___________ and
performance of its ordinary police functions
supports the AFP upon matters involving
suppression of insurgency.
A. Informational gathering
- In provinces, the ___________ has the power
to appoint the Provincial Director from the
three recommendees by the Regional
Director.
A. Governor
- In the law enforcement organization the
following will be considered specialization:
I. Undercover Works
II. Crime Scene Operations
III. Patrol Work
IV. Drug Reaction
V. SWAT Operations
A. I,II,III,IV,V
B. I,III,V
C. I,II,IV,V
D. II,III,IV,V
C. I,II,IV,V
- In R.A. _____, the AFP is responsible to the
external security and PNP is responsible for
the internal security of the country.
A. 6975
- In R.A. _______, the PNP stands as the
support to the AFP.
B. 8551
- It is the agency that enforces
countermeasures to stop, control, and
monitor the spread of disease.
B. Bureau of Quarantine
- Separation by reason of reaching the age of retirement, or upon completion of certain
number of years.
B. Retirement
- Which element of organization is used when the Head of Office assigned his/her particular personnel to particular tasks?
D. Specialization
- Organization may be defined as an arranging
personnel and functions in a systematic
manner designed to accommodate stated
goals and objectives in the most _____
manner possible.
B. Efficient
- According to Sir Robert Peel, the police must
be stable, efficient, and organized along
________.
A. Military Lines
- Some administrative duties are affected by
the growth in the organization’s population.
Which of the following BEST sums up how the
coordination process changes as an
organization gets bigger?
A. Coordination gets harder
100.Under Executive Order No. 292, instituting the
Administrative Code of 1987, “Department”
refers to an executive department created by
law, while “Office” refers to ______.
A. The entire machinery of the central
government
B. Any principal subdivision or unit of any
department
C. Any major functional unit of a
department or bureau including
regional offices
D. Any of the various units of the
government, including a department,
bureau, office, instrumentality, or
government-owned or controlled
corporations or a local government or a
distinct unit
C. Any major functional unit of a
department or bureau including
regional offices
- An international agreement concluded
between states in written form and governed
by international law, whether embodied in
single instruments or in two or more
instrument and whatever its particular
designation.
A. Treaty
II. COMPARATIVE POLICING SYSTEM
- Which term used that refers to the surrender
of a person by one state to another where he
is wanted for prosecution or, if already
convicted, for punishment?
D. Extradition
- The word “police” was derived from the Greek
word Politeia which means
A. Government of the City
- ASEANAPOL permanent secretariat is on
__________ basis.
B. Rotational
- Japan’s complex program of crime prevention
relies upon
C. Cooperation and support of the
community
- Based on PNP-MC 2007-012 as amended by
PNP MC NO. 2009-006, who among the PNP
personnel is qualified to participate in the UN
Peacekeeping Missions?
B. PSSg. Logan
- It is an agency of a community or government
that is responsible for enforcing-the law,
maintaining public order, and preventing and
detecting crime.
A. Police
- The PNP is considered servants of the-
community who depends for the effectiveness of their functions upon the express wishes of the people. This is in adherence with the
B. Home Rule Theory
- Which of the following is an international
police organization that facilities cross-border
police cooperation and also support to
prevent and fight against international
crimes?
A. International Criminal police
organization
- The type of police and Criminal Justice System
are distinguished by a strong adversarial
system where lawyers interpret and Judges
are bound by precedent.
B. Common law systems
- Which global threat to law enforcement
brought about by globalization, created
opportunity for global professional criminals
which can only be addressed through?
D. Transnational professional network
and cooperation
- This type of society has not only codified laws
but also laws that prescribe good behavior
and a specialized police system and principle-based system of punishment, being followed
by England and the US.
B. Urban-industrial society
- The theory of comparative policing that sees
problem as society is becoming too complex.
C. Modernization theory
- This theory suggests that people report more
crime to police and demand the police to
become more effective in solving crime
problems.
A. Alertness to crime theory
- In the PNP the highest rank is Director
General, in the Indonesian National Police the
highest is
A. Police General
- The equivalent rank of Chief PNP in the Royal
Thailand Police.
B. Police General
- Pertains to all those forms of policing that in
some sense, transgress national borders.
D. Transnational policing
- It is now a common form of policing
practiced in most advance countries that
involves information exchange, has a
Common monopoly around the world.
C. Intelligence led policing
- What is the new concept of police strategy
wherein the community groups for
cooperative efforts with the office?
B. Team policing
- These police force are often referred to as
“Bobbies or Peelers” of London that became
the model for the police forces in the US and
the British Empire.
D. Metropolitan Police Force
- All except one uses a centralized system of
policing.
A. Israel
B. France
C. United States
D. Philippines
C. United States
- Established to detect and fight transnational
crime and provide for international
cooperation and coordination of other police
activities, except political crimes.
D. International Criminal Police
Organization
- The police force in Thailand is known as
A. Royal Thai Police
- In the Philippines the PNP is under
NAPOLCOM, Japan National Police is under
the
C. National Public Safety Commission
- These are residential police box in Japan is
usually staffed by a single officer. It is
typically located outside of urban-districts in
villages and is operated by one community
officer, who resides with his family in this
police facility.
B. Chuzaisho