Law Enforcement Organization and Administration (Lea 1)
Law Enforcement Organization and Administration (Lea 1)
APPROACH)
Planning – the process of setting performance objectives and identifying the actions needed to
accomplish them.
Organizing - process of dividing the work to be done and coordinating results to achieve a
desired purpose.
Leading - process of directing and coordinating the work efforts.
Controlling - process of monitoring performance
MANAGEMENT THEORIES
a. Planning – the mental process of finding adequate solutions. things that need to be done
b. Organizing – allocation of authority, responsibility, accountability. Work subdivisions are
arranged, defined, coordinated.
c. Staffing – providing competent men to the job. Right people and right position.
Activities of staffing.
1. Recruitment – obtain a sufficient number of the right people.
2. Selection – choosing candidates, suitable person for the position.
3. Training – improve ability required for the job.
4. Development – improve abilities of personnel. Prepare them for a more
responsible position in the future.
5. Appraisal – process of measuring performance in achieving goals.
d. Directing – giving of authoritative instructions, orders, or command to working men. Guiding
e. Coordinating – pattern of group effort among working men, harmonious adjustment.
f. Reporting – keeping those responsible informed. Record - putting what is reported into
records.
g. Budgeting – forecasting in detail of the result of an officially recognized program.
Appropriation of funds.
Functional Units:
TERRITORIAL UNITS:
1. Scalar Principle(d-u-c-s) - vertical hierarchy of organization and unbroken chain of units from
top to bottom, describing flow of authority.
1. Delegation of authority – division of task of command among officers
a. Delegate – person sent or authorized to represent others.
b. Delegee – person who distributes or authorize the delegate.
2. Unity of command – under the control of one superior/supervisor. To avoid
confusion
3. Chain of command – A line or chain of superiors from top to bottom, unbroken
line of authority that links all people in an organization.
4. Span of control – number of subordinates that the superior officer could manage
or control.
LEADERSHIP STYLES:
1. Authoritarian or autocratic - extreme control to his subordinates. centralization of
power
2. Participative or democratic - importance to his subordinates
3. Laissez- fair or free-reign - delegates authority completely to his subordinate
1. Medjay - Civil police headed by Egyptian officer, and the 1st group to use police dogs on
patrol.
2. Vigiles - organized group of men in ancient Rome worked to fight fires and enforce the law.
3. Anglo-Saxon - Germanic tribes in England, 1st to conquer England.
4. Sumerians - earliest record to standardize rules and methods of enforcement.
5. Babylonians - Code of King Hammurabi, rules for his kingdoms not only offenses but also
punishments.
6. Greece – Greek law enforcement called ephori. Plato - (punishment should have purpose)
7. Rome
a. Praetorian guard- protects the palace.
b. Urban cohorts/ praefectus urbi - to patrol the city or protect the city.
c. Vigiles- fight bad fires.
8. TUN (TOWN) POLICING SYSTEM - All male residents were required to guard the town (tun)
a. Ten families in a town (tun) equaled a tithing.
b. Each tithing elected a leader who was known as the tithingman.
9. HUE AND CRY - village law started in Britain to shout to call all male residents to assemble and
arrest the suspect.
10. SHIRE-REEVE - military divisions in england are called shires.
a. Two “constabuli” or “the keeper of the horse” became the source of the word
constable.
b. “Shire-rieve” origin of sheriff
Term of office – 4 regular commissioners shall be appointed by the president for the term of 6
years.
Qualifications:
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
a. commission proper - composed of the offices of the chairman and the four (4) commissioners.
b. staff services
1. The Planning and Research Service – policy formulation
2. The legal affairs service – legal counsel.
3. The crime prevention and coordination service – criminological research
4. The personnel and administrative service – entrance, promotional exams
5. The inspection, monitoring and investigation service – inspection and audit.
6. The installations and logistics service- acquisition, inventory.
7. Financial service – budget
NATIONAL APPELLATE BOARD – PNP vs PNP decide cases on appeal from decisions rendered
by the PNP Chief.
REGIONAL APPELLATE BOARDS – PNP vs Citizens decide cases on appeal from decisions
rendered by officers other than the PNP Chief, the mayor, and the PEOPLE'S LAW
ENFORCEMENT BOARD
People’s Law Enforcement Board – Receiving entity for any citizens complaint against officers and
members of PNP.
Merit – criteria for determining individual is qualified to meet requirements for higher level
job.
Seniority – length of service that employee has accumulated.
Time in grade (TIG) and experience – total period of time acquired prior to promotion.
Mandatory schooling – requirement for promotion
Retirement - separation of the police personnel from the service by reason of reaching the age of
retirement provided by law.
Police planning
The PNP shall reserve ten percent (10%) quota for women.
PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR - power to choose the PNP Provincial Director from a list of 3 eligibles.
CITY AND MUNICIPAL MAYORS - Chief of Police from a list of five (5) eligible
Minor offense - shall refer to an act or omission not involving moral turpitude but affecting the
internal discipline of the PNP, and shall include but not be limited to: (G-A-N-I-D)
Entry qualifications to IAS – personnel who have at least five (5) years’ experience in law enforcement
The IAS shall also conduct, motu proprio (on its own initiative), automatic investigation of the following
cases:
a. discharges a firearm.
b. death, serious physical injury, or any violation of human rights
c. evidence was compromised, tampered with, obliterated, or lost.
d. suspect was seriously injured.
e. rules of engagement have been violated.
Temporary – (completion of Field training Program) waiver program as provided in under R.A
8551
Probationary - passes through the regular screening procedures.
Permanent – shall be issued only after completion of (FTP) field training program.
a. PSBRC – 6 Months – basic knowledge and skills
b. FTP – 6 Months - patrol, traffic, investigation as requirements for the permanency of
their appointment.
PAT- EMSG - Regional Director for Regional Personnel or Chief of the PNP for national head
quarter’s
LIEUTENANT- LT. COLONEL - appointed by the chief PNP.
COLONEL- LT- GENERAL– appointed by the president.
POLICE GENERAL – appointed by the President, most senior officers down to the rank of
Brigadier General.
BASIC RECRUIT TRAINING - most basic of all police training, prerequisite for permanency of
appointment.
The PNP Field Training - receives formal instruction on the job for special and defined
purposes and performs actual job functions.
POLICE INSPECTION - ascertain the standard policies and procedures, review and analyze the
performance.
1. PNP shall be headed by a chief who shall be assisted by two (2) Deputy Chiefs (both appointed
by the President and have the rank of police Lt. General):
a. Deputy Chief for Administration
b. Deputy Chief for Operations
The PNP is composed of sixteen (16) directorates headed by a Police Director with the position title of
Director of The Directorial Staff.
Criminal case – Laws of the Philippines (people of the Philippines) (quantum evidence - proof beyond
reasonable doubt)
Philippine National Police- signed into law on December 13, 1990, which took effect on
January 1, 1991.
BUREAU OF FIRE PROTECTION - January 29, 1991, Republic Act no. 6975.
o Fire code of the Philippines
o Provincial level office of the fire marshal
o District offices district fire marshal
o Fire station headed by city or municipal fire marshal.
BUREAU OF JAIL MANAGEMENT AND PENOLOGY- RA no. 6975
o Supervision over city and municipal jails
o Provincial governor shall supervise provincial jail.
o Headed by warden.
THE PHILIPPINE DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (PDEA) - virtue of Republic Act 9165,
Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) that serves as the policy and strategy formulating body.
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) as its implementing arm.
Bureau of Immigration (BI) - primary enforcement arm of the Department of Justice and the President
of the Philippines