Police Operational Planning

Question 1

Police administrators sometimes do not appreciate the importance of planning because of the pattern of career development. It is ironic that the pattern of career development for typical police managers carries with it seeds that sometimes blossom into a negative view of planning. However, planning is an integral element of good management and good decision-making. Management needs to anticipate and shape events; it is weak if it merely responds to them.

Answer 1

Police Operational Planning

Question 2

It is an organize schedule or sequence by methodical activities intended to attain a goal and objectives for the accomplishment of mission or assignment. It is a method or way of doing something in order to attain objectives. Plan provides answer to 5W’s and 1 H.

Answer 2

Plan

Question 3

Hudzik and Cordner defined __________ 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.”

Answer 3

planning

Question 4

It 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.

Answer 4

Planning

Question 5

It is an attempt by police administrators in trying to allocate anticipated resources to meet anticipated service demands. It is the systematic and orderly determination of facts and events as basis for policy formulation and decision affecting law enforcement management.

Answer 5

Police Planning

Question 6

It 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. 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.

Answer 6

Police Operational Planning

Question 7

These are a specific commitment to achieve a measurable result within a specific period of time. Goals are general statement of intention and typically with time horizon, or it is an achievable end state that can be measured and observed. Making choices about goals is one of the most important aspects of planning.

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Objectives

Question 8

This 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.

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Strategic planning

Question 9

It is keeping in mind that strategy is deciding where we want to be

Answer 9

Long-range Thinking

Question 10

These are means by which goals and objectives can be attained. They maybe policies, strategies or specific actions aimed at eliminating a problem.

Answer 10

Alternatives (options)

Question 11

It is the responsibility of the legislative branch of the government. The main concern of the police in this broad external policy planning is assisting the legislature in their determining of police guideline through the passage of appropriate laws or ordinances for the police to enforce.

Answer 11

Broad External Policy Planning

Question 12

It is the responsibility of the C/PNP and other chiefs of the different units or headquarters within their area of jurisdiction to achieve the objectives or mission of the police organization. They are responsible for planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, controlling, reporting and budgeting for the police organization within existing policies and available resources. For maximum police effectiveness, they shall be responsible for the technical operation of the police organization and management of its personnel.

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Internal Policy Planning

Question 13

These are developed as a result of crisis. A particular problem may occur for which the department has no plan and must quickly develop one, sometimes without careful preparation.

Answer 13

Reactive Plans

Question 14

These are developed in anticipation of problems. Although not all police problems are predictable, many are, and it is possible for a police department to prepare a response in advance.

Answer 14

Proactive Plans

Question 15

These are essential statements that identify the role of the police in the community and the future condition or state to which the department can aspire.

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Visionary Plans

Question 16

These are designed to meet the long-range, overall goals of the organization. Such plans allow the department to adapt anticipated changes or develop a new philosophy or model of policing (e.g. community policing).

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Strategic Plans

Question 17

These are designed to meet the specific tasks requires to implement strategic plans.

Answer 17

Operational Plans

Question 18

These provide the basic framework for responding to organizational problems. The organizational vision and values, strategic statement, policies, procedures, and rules and regulations are examples of standing plans.

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Standing Plans

Question 19

These include the framework for the operation of the major functional units in the organization, such as patrol and investigations. It also includes the design of the structure, how different functions and units are to relate and coordinate activities, and how resources are to be allocated.

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Functional Plans

Question 20

These are concerned with specific purpose and conclude when an objective is accomplished or a problem is solved. Specific police programs or projects such as drug crackdown, crime prevention program, and neighborhood clean-up campaign are good examples of this.

Answer 20

Time-specific Plans

Question 21

This shall based on a careful view of the matters relating to the situation for which plans are being developed. Opinions or ideas of persons who may speak with authority of the subjects and views of the police commanders, other government officials, and other professionals shall be considered.

Answer 21

Frame of Reference

Question 22

This calls for the identification of the problems, understanding both its records and its possible solution. A situation must exist for which something must and can be done. For example, an area in a city or municipality is victimized by a series of robbers. There is a need for reaching the preliminary decision that robberies may be reduced in the area, and that the pattern of operation, in general, is one by which the police can reduce them.

Answer 22

Clarifying the Problems

Question 23

It is used by analysts in law enforcement agencies to map, visualize, and analyze crime incident patterns. It is a key component of crime analysis and the CompStat policing strategy. Mapping crime, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), allows crime analysts to identify crime hot spots, along with other trends and patterns.

Answer 23

Crime mapping

Question 24

It is a term used in policing to refer to the process of conducting spatial analysis within crime analysis.

Answer 24

Crime mapping

Question 25

It is a discrete location that is usually depicted on a GIS generated map by a symbol or label.

Answer 25

point feature

Question 26

It is a real-world element that can be represented on a map by a line or set of lines.

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line feature

Question 27

It is a geographic area represented on a map by a multisided figure with a closed set of lines. Polygons can represent areas as large as continents or as small as buildings; in GIS-generated maps they may be used to depict county boundaries, city boundaries, parks, school campuses, or police districts.

Answer 27

polygon feature

Question 28

It is a vertical photograph taken from a satellite or an airplane that is digitized and placed within the appropriate coordinates. Such photos, which may appear in black and white or color, show the details of streets, buildings, parking lots, and environmental features (landscaping).

Answer 28

image feature

Question 29

In ______________, individual, uniform symbols represent features such as the locations of stores, roads, or states. In addition, these are not useful when analysts are dealing with large amounts of data.

Answer 29

single-symbol maps

Question 30

It is a specified area around a feature on a map. These can be set at small distances, such as 50 feet, or larger distances, such as 500 miles, depending on the purpose and scale of the map.

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buffer

Question 31

It allows the crime analyst to display several values within a particular variable at the same time (e.g., variable  crime, values  robbery, assault, and rape).

Answer 31

Chart mapping

Question 32

In _______________, analysts use point data to shade surfaces that are not limited to area boundaries (as is the case in graduated color mapping).

Answer 32

density mapping

Question 33

This refers to simplified geographic information systems made available to novice users over the Internet. Many police departments have interactive Web sites where citizens and police officers can conduct basic crime mapping themselves. These applications typically are not flexible or sophisticated enough to be useful to crime analysts

Answer 33

interactive crime mapping