POLICE PATROL OPERATION MIDTERM Flashcards
PURPOSES OF PATROL
- To prevent the commission of crime.
- To safeguard life and property.
- To maintain peace and order.
falls under the heading of protection, and involves the prevention of crime through the noticeable presence of police vehicles and personnel.
Preventive Enforcement
first presented preventive enforcement as a criminological philosophy.
Sir Robert Peel
This involves going either where the trouble is, or where the trouble is likely to occur.
If a certain area is subject to a high crime rate, the patrol cars spend a greater part of their patrolling time in that area.
Selective Enforcement
Large police departments have traffic divisions, but the majorities of the departments are small, and have only patrol division to handle traffic enforcement.
is strongly dependent upon personal contact between the patrol officers and the violators. The important thing is that the violator is stopped and the violation is brought to his attention.
Traffic Enforcement
One of the duties and purposes of patrol is the handling of emergency calls for service. Since the handling of emergency calls for service is one of the basic duties of the patrol officer, he should be trained in first aid and water life-saving emergencies.
Emergency Call for Service
account for the majority of services provided by the patrol division. Because of this, officers have to guard against becoming callused and indifferent to calls of this nature.
Routine Call for Service
OBJECTIVES OF POLICE PATROL
PREVENTIVE ENFORCEMENT
SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT
TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT
EMERGENCY CALL FOR SERVICE
ROUTINE CALL FOR SERVICE
= incidents requiring immediate police action
Called for Service
= patrol activity tends to reduce criminal opportunity and accidents
Inspectional Service
= directed at less tangible hazards such as poor lighted areas, business section, etc…
Routine Patrol
CLASSES OF CLASSES
called for service
inspectional service
routine patrol
– an organization within an organization. It serves as the nucleus or focal point of the department.
Patrol force
– regarding manning level of any police department must be observed.
Rule of the Thumb
– standard manning level is 1:500, however, in extreme conditions, this may be stretched to maximum of 1:100.
R.A. 6975
FACTORS AFFECTING EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE DISTRIBUTION
OF PATROL FORCES
POLICE HAZARD
CHRONOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION
= situations or conditions that may induce incidents calling for some kind of police action.
Police Hazard
= includes any person, place, thing, situation, condition possessing a high potential for criminal attack or for creation of any other type of problem necessitating a demand for immediate police service.
Police hazard
KINDS OF POLICE HAZARDS
Persons
Properties
Places
= such as criminals, alcoholics, addicts, gamblers, prostitutes, drug peddlers, juvenile delinquents, insane persons
Persons
= includes piers, warehouse, unoccupied dwellings, gambling joints, banks, pawnshops, drug dens, gambling dens
Property
= terminals, demonstrations, parks, bars, parades, conventions, political meetings, lodging
Places
= resulting from inadequate illumination or obstruction of views
Deficient Visibility
= created by the absence of suitable locks, bars and gratings
Insecurity of Premises
= poorly designed roadways, defects or obstruction in public spaces and presence of combustibles
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= crowd offers opportunities for theft, loss of persons or things, fights and panics
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Presence of People
FACTORS THAT CREATE HAZARDS
Deficienct Visibility
Insecurity of Premises
Presence of consition of things
Presence of people
Lack of regulation
= involves consideration of the nature and causes of crimes. Patrol officers should know how crimes are committed, when and who commits them.
Chronological Distribution
= signifies what time crime is often or frequently
committed
Crime Clock
= location or place or crime prone areas where in crime is
frequently or often committed.
Crime Map
= involves weighing categories of incidents and accounting the number of identifiable hazards and street mileage.
Geographical Distribution
= it involved determining man hours needed to cover the streets and alleys to inspect the police hazards predominating the AOR.
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Walking Beats
= involves determining the need to shift motor patrol units hour-by-hour at the area according to where and when crime mostly likely to occur.
Motor Patrol Distribution
= assigning members to regular/usual post which usually based on seniority.
Regular Post
= is the process of assigning members of patrol force from post to post
Post Rotation
= attitude is the first and foremost preparation of patrol officer since he will be dealing with different persons in the society. His value system must be in harmony with the objective of law enforcement and sense of fair play.
General Preparation
– the police officer should be armed with knowledge and equipment. This can be done thru fall-in formation in the headquarters, precincts or police blocks devoted to giving of assignments.
- Pre-Patrol Preparation
– involves inspection of patrol vehicle to be used before going out on patrol
Vehicle Inspection
– this is made by having debriefing conference with the officer who is being relieved and who has just spent the previous tour of duty.
- In-Field Preparation
– this involves familiarization of assigned area for patrolling upon arrival in the field.
. District Orientation Tour
This refers to thorough geographical knowledge of the patrol area or an understanding of the character, fears, concerns, problems and attitudes of the local residents
STREET KNOWLEDGE
l – 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. However, it does have certain advantages that warrant its continued use if even on a limited basis.
Foot Patro
– usually used for traffic, surveillance, parades and special events.
Fixed Foot Patrol
. used where there is considerable foot movement such as business and shopping center, family dwellings and the like.
Mobile Foot Patrol –
– used in securing certain portion of the road.
Line Beat Patrol
– used in checking residential buildings, business establishments, dark alley, parking lot
b. Random Foot Patrol
– is the most economical type of patrol and offers tactical ability when used in numbers. It is considered as the most extensively used and most effective means of transportation for police patrol.
Automobile Patrol
– a call where mobile car is required to observed the traffic laws and does not normally used flashing lights and siren while on its way to the scene of the crime
Routine Call
– the responding patrol car has to observed the traffic laws without need of using flashing lights and siren but proceed directly to its destination without stopping enroute unless incident of far more serious occurs
- Urgent Call
– requires the use of flashing lights and siren except when there is an attempt to surprise the criminals in the act.
Emergency Call
– the two-wheeled motorcycle is quite adaptable to traffic enforcement, parades, escort duty and congested areas because of its high mobility. Motorcycle Patrol is usually fielded in areas where banks and pawnshops are concentrated.
Motorcycle Patrol
– it is considered as the simple and inexpensive means of silent transportation in patrol operation. Its versatility makes it indispensable for covering crowded areas unreachable by automobile and motorcycle.
Bicycle Patrol
– Next to walking patrol, the horse patrol is one of the oldest types of patrol. It is useful in areas wherein automobile or motorcycle is suitable for patrolling.
Horse Patrol
– this is specialized type of patrol which is used in large bodies of water for the purpose of controlling smuggling.
Marine or Boat Patrol
– a type of patrol using Helicopter or Fixed-Wing Aircraft. This is considered as the most economical type of patrol in terms of human resources.
Air Patrol
– this is particularly effective for “saturation drive coverage” of high crime areas. This allows police officers to infiltrate the crime areas without alarming the criminals following the element of surprise.
Plain Clothes Patrol
