Police Patrol and Communications: By: Pssupt Napoleon B Pascua (Ret)

Police Patrol and
Communications
By:
PSSUPT NAPOLEON B PASCUA (Ret)
*COPS as Management Philosophy
COPS is based on the belief that working

together, the police and the community can
accomplish what neither can be
accomplished alone: the provision of full
service, proactive and personalized policing.
It is characterized by a decentralized
organization, longer tenure of beat personnel,
focus on problem solving, and collaborative
interaction and partnership between the
police and the community.
In COPS, the community becomes the police.
Effective police-community partnership leads
to the adoption of pro-active crime
prevention and control programs, projects
and activities as a means to peace and order.
Community involvement in police activities
becomes a force multiplier through auxiliaries
and support groups. It gives the police
greater access to information and community
resources, thus allowing it to effectively
address crime, as well as social problems
that causes crime.
In COPS, democracy is in action. People
participation or the empowerment role of the
community in the maintenance of peace and
order is the basic foundation. It highlights the
role of the community pillar as part of the
criminal justice system by harnessing people
power, thus, making true the admission that
the police alone cannot solve the peace and
order concerns of the community. It admits that
the citizens themselves should have a say in
addressing problem areas, oftentimes through
non-traditional approaches.
It emphasizes proactive rather
than reactive policing and
promotes more direct contact of
the police officers with the
community hence, requiring
delegation of decision making to
beat officers.
Problem Solving – This core component
is focused on the problems that serve as
root-causes or breeding grounds of crime.
COPS shall anticipate/detect, study, and
address these problems, so that crime
shall be pre-empted, or at least minimize.
This is the most proactive component.
Community Partnership – The
effectiveness and success of Full Service
Policing and Problem Solving shall depend
mainly on this component. Community
Partnership is therefore the LINCH PIN
component that will determine whether
COPS shall succeed or not. This is due to
the fact that this is the key to unleashing
People’s Power which shall tremendously
boost the capabilities of the police to
effectively undertake both FSP and PS.
The main objective of CP is to MOTIVATE,
CATALYZE, ORGANIZE, AND MOBILIZE the
citizenry as much as possible to perform their
duties as part-time and informal component of
the police.
To be able to establish and maximize

Community Partnership, there should be
mutual trust between the police and the
community. To gain the sympathy and build
the trust of the community, the police must
treat the people with respect and sensitivity.
THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE
CRIME PREVENTION STRATEGY
One of the core functions of the police is

crime prevention. The Philippine National
Police strategy in crime prevention is
composed of the following mechanisms:
Police Presence (visibility), Law
Enforcement, and Police Community
Partnership.
It is an established notion that crime
happens when these three elements are
present: motive, opportunity, and
instrumentality. The “motive” is the
intention that drives a person to commit a
crime. On the other hand, “opportunity” to
commit a crime consists of sets of
circumstances which allows the person to
commit the crime, a chance for the person
to perpetuate a motive. “Instrumentality” is
the device used in committing the crime.
The PNP is employing Police Presence as a
major crime deterrent to reduce if not totally eliminate
the opportunity to commit crime in particular. Police
presence is defined as the physical deployment
of police officers, patrol vehicles, and other
police equipment which could amplify visibility
and eventually deliver the much-needed,
reassuring police attendance and response in
certain strategic areas. Deployment of this mix
patrol operations creates a genuine and collective
perception of police omnipresence, thus projecting a
24-hour police presence.
Patrol Techniques and Strategies
Patrol strategies should include

proactive approaches to intercept crimes in
progress, surveillance activities, and crime
prevention. Good patrol initiatives will
incorporate various aspects of each
strategy (e.q. using bikes in areas that are
not accessible to vehicles). These
initiatives should be structured based on
solid crime analysis that has determined
crime patterns based on relationships
1.Types of crimes occurring
2. Types of Victimization (Crimes
against person or property)
3. Location/s or geography where the
crimes are occurring
4. Suspect/s modus operandi
5. Times when crime is occurring
6. Other variables that indicate
commonalities between the crimes
that have been occurring.
Proactive patrol system is an attempt to
prevent crime before it happens. Patrol
officers used to practice reactive policing,
waiting for crimes or accidents to occur,
and then respond. Proactive policing is an
effort to make patrol resources more
effective by using strategies such as:
1. Maintain a round-the-clock police

visibility patrols in banks, business
establishments, residential and crime prone
areas.
2. Suspicious persons and vehicles
should be immediately subjected to
spot checks for detection and
verification.
3. Patrollers should report to the
operations center and adjacent
patrol areas regularly to note their
observations and whereabouts, and
to receive additional instructions.
4. Patrol officers should coordinate
with bank managers, big business
owners and residential
establishments who are possible
targets of criminal groups.
5. Conduct regular rehearsals or
dry runs to record the response
time.
Visibility Patrol Strategies
--High Visibility Patrol – the theory
underlying HVP is that there are certain
kinds of crimes that can be reduced by an
aura of the police (omnipresence)
--Low Visibility Patrol – is often used to
apprehend criminals engaged in targeted
types of crimes. Its secondary effect is that
other types of crimes will be deterred as a
result of greater probability of persons being
arrested in the commission of a crime. +

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COPS is based on the belief that working

To be able to establish and maximize

One of the core functions of the police is

Patrol strategies should include

1. Maintain a round-the-clock police

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