This document defines terms related to police organization and administration. It provides definitions for 46 terms, including types of police organization (according to function, levels of authority, place of work, time frame), roles within the police force (active service, administrative personnel, commanding officer), and functions of the police force (administration, auxiliary functions, communications). The definitions cover topics such as budgeting, communication, jurisdiction, ranks, and units within the police organization.
This document defines terms related to police organization and administration. It provides definitions for 46 terms, including types of police organization (according to function, levels of authority, place of work, time frame), roles within the police force (active service, administrative personnel, commanding officer), and functions of the police force (administration, auxiliary functions, communications). The definitions cover topics such as budgeting, communication, jurisdiction, ranks, and units within the police organization.
This document defines terms related to police organization and administration. It provides definitions for 46 terms, including types of police organization (according to function, levels of authority, place of work, time frame), roles within the police force (active service, administrative personnel, commanding officer), and functions of the police force (administration, auxiliary functions, communications). The definitions cover topics such as budgeting, communication, jurisdiction, ranks, and units within the police organization.
1. ACCORDING TO FUNCTION - Organization according to the nature of the tasks to be
performed, it should be divided into groups so that similar and related duties may be assigned to each division. https://www.scribd.com/upload-document? 2. ACCORDING TO LEVELS OF AUTHORITY - Vertical combination of superior officers, with each rank at a different level of authority from any other, form channels through which operations may be directed and controlled. 3. ACCORDING TO PLACE OF WORK - Organization according to the territorial distribution of the platoon, accomplished by assigning police officer to beats, it is necessary to facilitate the direction and control of the officers and to ensure suitable patrol service within the jurisdiction. 4. ACCORDING TO TIME FRAME - Organization in which police units are divided into shifts or watches according to the time of day. 5. ACTIVE SERVICE OF THE UNIFORMED PERSONNEL - Refers to services rendered as an officers and non-officer, cadet, trainee, or draftee in the Police, Fire or Jail Force, on in the municipal police prior to the integration of the PC-INP or in the AFP. 6. ADMINISTRATION - Denotes functions that determine the basic policies, programs, and objectives ofban organization and the means and methods to be employed to achieve them. 7. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - Branch of law dealing with organization, functions and procedures of executive or administrative agencies known sometimes as Boards, Bureaus or Commissions with quasi legislative powers are delegated and judicial powers are granted, and the extent and manner to which such agencies are subject to the control of the courts. 8. ADMINISTRATIVE METHOD - Refers to the procedure for formulating rational decisions based on collected and interpreted information as opposed to intuitive persuasions. 9. ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL - Refers to those belonging to the second level manager's bracket such as patrol watch commanders. 10. AFFIDAVIT - A sworn statement in the writing voluntarily made before a notary public of any other officer authorized to administer oaths. 11. ALTERNATIVES - Also known as options, are means by which goals and objectives can be attained. They may be policies, strategies or specific actions aimed at eliminating a problem. Alternatives do not have to be substitutes for one another or should perform the same function. For example, our goal is to "improve officer-survival skills." The plan is to train the officers on militaristic and combat shooting. 12. ANSWER - A pleading which contains the respondent's defense. 13. APPEALED POLICY - This type of policy is born whe. a problem arises at the lower levels of the organization and the man in charge does not know how to cope with the problem. 14. ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF JAIL BUREAU - Refers to the assistanf heads of the department regional officers with the rank of senior superintendent. 15. ATTRITION BY DEMOTION IN POSITION OR RANK - Any PNP personnel, civilian or uniformed, who is relieved and assigned to a position lower than what is established for his or her grade in the PNP and staffing pattern and who shall not be assigned to a position commensurate to his or her grade within eighteen (18) months after such demotion in position shall be retired or separated. L 16. ATTRITION BY NON PROMOTION - Any PNP personnel who have not been prpmoted for a continuous period af ten (10) years shall be retired or separated. 17. ATTRITION BY RELIEF - A PNP uniformed personnel who have been relieved for just cause and has not have been given and assignment within two (2) years after such relief shall be retired or separated. 18. AUTHORITY - The right to command and control the behavior of employees in lower positions within and organizational hierarchy. A hierarchy thus serve as the framework for the flow of authority downward (and obedience upward) through the dependent. 19. AUTHORITY ROLE - A particular position within an organization carries the same authority regardless of who occupies that position. While the personality of the occupant may change the style or manner in which authority is exercise, it should increase or decrease the basic obligations of the occupant toward those in subordinate positions. 20. AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS - It involves the logistical operations of the department. These include training, communications, jailing, maintenance, record keeping, motor vehicles, and similar operations. 21. AUXILIARY SERVIXE DIVISION -Police work that encompasses such specialties as records and communication, criminalities, detention and property management. 22. AVIATION SECURITY UNIT - Headed by a Director with the rank of chief superintendent, the aviation security units, in coordination with airport authorities shall secure all the country's airport against offensive and terrorist acts that threaten civil aviation, exercise operational control and supervision over all agencies involved in airport security operation, and enforce all laws and regulations relative to air travel protection and safety. 23. BREACH OF INTERNAL DOSCIPLINE - Any offense committed by a member of the PNP involving and affecting discipline and order within the police organization. 24. BUDGETING - The forecasting in detail the results of an efficiently reorfanized program of operation based on the highest reasinable expectations of operating efficiency. 25. BUDGET CALENDAR - A schedule of financial plan to be undertaken during the budget cycle. 26. BUDGET CALL - A document that triggers budget preparation. 27. BUDGET CYCLE - It involves the followinf processes: (1) Preparatio.- by PNP offices; (2) Authorization- by Congress; (3) Accountability- Control Measures conducted by auditing. 28. BUDGET GUIDANCE - A document issued by higher authorities stipulating the national objectives, priorities and constraints including assessment of the peace and order situation. 29. BUDGETING - with all that goes of budgeting in the form of fiscal planning, accounting. and control. 30. BUDGET YEAR - Current year and one day. 31. BULLETIN BOARDS - onrganizational policies, rules and regulations, and activities may be typed out of mimeorgraphed and the posted on the bulletin boards. If strategically located and well managed, bulletin boards are an effective medium for transmitting newly issued policies, rules and regulations to police officers. 32. BUREAU - Refers organic unit within large department. 33. BUREAU OF JAIL MANAGEMENT AND PENOLOGY - Referred to as the Jail Bureau, created initially consisting of officers and uniformed members of the Jail Management and Penology Servise as constituted under P.D. No. 765. It is vested with the authority to exercise supervision and control over all district, city, and municipal jails. While the provincial, jail will be supervised and controlled by the provincial government within its jurisdiction. 34. CARABINEROS DE SEGURIDAD PUBLICA - Carabineros de Seguridad Publica wag organized as a mounted riflemen or cavalry whose duties expanded in 1781 from a special commission as government custodian of the tobacco monopoly to a distinct group charged with the duties of a harbor, port, border and river place. 35. CHIEF OF JAIL BUREAU - refers to the head of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology with the rank of director. 36. Chief PNP - The head of the Philippine National Police with a rank of Director General who shall have the power to direct and control tactical as well as strategic movements, deployment, placement, utilization of the PNP or any of its units and personnel, includings its equipment, facilities and other resources. The Chief PNP has summary dismissal powers over all members of the police force. 37. CITY/MUNICIPAL JAIL WARDEN - Refers to the head of the city or municipal jail with the rank of senior inspector. 38. CIVIL RELATIONS UNIT -Headed by a Director with the rank of chief superintendent, the civil relations unit shall implement plans and programs that will promote community and citizen's participation. 39. COMMAND COMMUNICATION - It is either oral or written orders of a superior officer to his subordinates. It is directly made and compliance is immediately expected. 40. COMMAND/UNIT INSPECTOR - Refers to the officer in charge of the PNP Inspectorate Service in the different Command National Support Units. 41. COMMANDING OFFICER -An officer who is in charge of a department . bureau, division an area or a district. 42. COMMISSION PROPER - Refersbto the National Police Commission which is composed of the office of the chairperson and the four regular commissioners. 43. COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 408 - Otherwise known as the Article of War Act. 44. COMMUNICATION - The process of sharing undaerstanding an information on common subjects. More precisely, it is an intercourse betwee, through or more people by means of words, letters, symbols or gestures for the purpose of exchanging information. Procedures, channels, and standardized languages are essential to effective communicatin within such large organization. 45. COMMUNICATIONS UNIT - Headed by a Director with the rank of Chief Superintendent which shall be responsible for establishing effective police communication network. 46. COMPANY OFFICERS - This group includes all junior officers in the ranks of Senior Inspector and Inspector. 47. COORDINATING - the all-important duty of interralating the various parts of the work. 48. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION - Has been vested with the responsibility which primarily pertains to the coordination of criminal information and the investigation of crimes not resolved by the patrol. 49. CRIME LABORATORY - The central crime laboratory to be headed by a director with a rank of chief superintendent, which provode scientific and technical investigative aid support to the PNP and other government investigative agencies. 50. CRIME PREVENTION - Refers to the reduction or elimination of the opportunity to commit a crime. 51. CRIME PREVENTION AND COORDINATION SERVICE - Unit whoch shall undertake criminological researches and studies, formulate a national crime prevention plan, develop a crime prevention and information program and provide editorial direction for all criminology research and crine prevention publications. 52. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION UNIT - It is headed by a director with the rank of chief superintendent, the criminal investigative shall undertake the monitoring, investigation and prosecution of all crimes involving economic sabotage and commission by highly placed or professional criminal syndicates and organizations. 53. CROWD - It consists of a body of individual people with no organization, no single partnership. Each individual's behavior is fairly controlled and ruled by reason. All the participants have been thrown by circumstance into a crown for some common purpose that may give them at least one thing in common. 54. DECISION - A written disposition of a case personally signed by the disciplinary authority containing facts established during the hearing, the findings and conclusions, as well as the pertinent and relevant laws and jurisprudence applicable thereon. 55. DECISIONAL ROLES - It includes functions to make decisions that affect other people such as an Entrepreneur - seeking problems to solve and opportunities to explore; Disturbance handler - helping to resolve conflicts; Resource Allocator - allocating resources to various uses or Negotiator - negotiating between parties. 56. DELAGATION - The cinferring of an amount of authority by a superior position onto a lower-level position. The person to whom authoruty is delegated becomes responsible to the superior for doing the assigned job. However, the delegators remain accountable for accomplishment of the job within the guidelines and quality standards of the agency. 57. DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY - The process of commitinf an activity to another's care. 58. DELENEATION OF AUTHORITY - Lines of authority and responsobility should be definite, clear and direct so that responsibility is properly fixed and duplication avoided. In the police service each one knows where he fits in the pattern, to whom he is reponsible and who is responsible to them. 59. DEMOTION - A penalty or reduction of rank. 60. DEPLOYMENT - it shall mean the orderly and organized physical movement of elements or units of the PNP within the province, city or municipality for purposes of employment. 61. DIRECTION - It deals with the procedure of what he is to be done, who is to do it, and when where, and how it is to be done. 62. DIRECTING - task or making decisions and embodying them in specific and general orders and instructions and service as the leaser of the enterprise. 63. DISASTER - Refers to a sudden, unforeseen, extraordinary occurrence. It can be considered as an EMERGENCY but an emergency may not always be a disaster. 64. DISCIPLINARY APPELLATE BOARD - Refers to the formal administrative disciplinary appellate machinery consisting of the National Appellate Board and Regional Appellate Board, duly established by the NAPOLCOM. 65. DISHONESTY - It is the concealment or distortion of truth in a matter of fact relevant to one's office, or connected with the performance of his duties. 66. DISLOYALTY TO THE GOVERNMENT - it consist of abondonment or renunciation of one's loyalty to the Government of the Philippines, or advocating the overthrow of the government. 67. DISPOSITIVE PORTION - Refers to that part of a decision which declares whether the respondent is guilty or not guilty of the charge. 68. DISTRICT - Refers to a geographical subdivision of a city for a patrol purposes. 69. DISTRICT JAIL WARDEN - Refers to the head of district offices of the BJMP with the rank of Chief Inspector. 70. DIVISION - It is a primary subdivision of a bureau. 71. DUE PROCESS - Refers to the right to be given opportunity to present one's side and submit evidence in support thereof. 72. EARLY RETIREMENT PROGRAM - Within three (3) years after the effectively of RA 8551, any PNP officer or non-commissioned officer may retire and be paid separation benefits corresponding to a position two (2) ranks higher than his or her present rank subject to the folowing conditions: a) that at the time he or she applies fir retirement, he or she has already rendered at least ten (10) years of continuous government service; b) the applicant is not scheduled for separation or retirement from the service due to the attrition system or separation for cause c) he or she has no pending administrative or criminal case; and d) he or she has at least three (3) more years in the service before reaching the compulsory retirement age and at least one year before his or her maximum tenure in position. 73. EMERGENCY AND DISASTER PLANNING - Refers to the praparation in advance of protective and safety measures for unforeseen events resulting from natural and human actions. Disaster plans outline the actions to be taken by those designated for specific job. This will result in expeditious and orderly execution of relief and assistance to protect properties and lives. 74. EMPLOYMENT - Refers to the utilizations of units or elements of the PNP for purposes for promote. 75. EXCUTION - Deals with performance of orders followed and done with commensurate authority ro fulfill the responsibility. 76. EXONERATION - Is the declaration of the respondent's innocence by the disciplinary authority under summary preceedings. EXTRA DEPARTMENTAL PLANS - These are plans designed to guide the organization of the community to assist in accomplishing the police objectives in the field of juvenile and delinquency prevention, traffic control, and organized crimes. 77. FINANCE CENTER - Headed by a director with the rank of Chief Superintendent, the Finance center shall be responsible for providing finances services to the PNP. 78. FIELD OFFICERS - Also known as "Senior Officers". this category includes SR Superintendent, Superintendent, and Chief Inspector. 79. FIELD PROCEDURES - They are intended to be used in all situations of all kinds and serves as a guide to officers in the field on procedures that relate to the following: Reporting, Dispatching, Raids, Arrest, Stopping suspicious person, Recieving complaints, Patrolling and conduct of insvestigation of crimes. 80. FIELD TRAINING PROGRAM - All u iformed members of the PNP shall undergo a Field Training Program for twelve (12) months involving actual experience and assignment in patrol, traffic, and investigation as a requirement for permanency of their appointment. 81. FINANCIAL SERVICE - Unit whicg shall provide the commission with staff service and assistance on budgetary and financial matters inclufing the overseeing of the processinf and disbursements of funds pertaining to the scholarship program and surviving children of decrease and/or permanently incapacitated PNP personnel. 82. FORUM SHOPPING OR MULTIPLE FILI G OF COMPLAINTS - Refers to charges pr complaints regarding one single offense, filed simultaneously with different venues. 83. FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION - This type of organization is operated wherein the performance of certain duties, at all levels is controlled and directed by a separate organizational authority. 84. FUNCTIONAL PLANS - This include the framework for the operation of the major fuctional units in the organization, such as patrol and investigations. It also include the design of the structure, how different functions and units are to relate and coordinate activities, and how resources are to be allocated. 85. GENERAL OR FLAG OFFICERS - This category includes all Directors and Chief Superintendents. 86. GOALS - Broad statements of general and long-term organizational purposes often used to define the role of the police, for instance, to prevent crime. mainain order or help solve community problems. 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 olanning. Relate this definitions with their description as defined in chapter one. 87. GRADING - The simplest system of performance appraisal. 88. GUARDIA CIVIL - Organized with the dual function of a soldier and a policeman whose duties ranges frim the suppression of brigandage by means of patrolling unsettled theories, detention of petty and local insurrection, the enforcement of tax collection and was armed as the Spanish infantry to partially relieve the Spanish Peninsula Troops of their work in policing towns. The establishmet of the Guardia Civil gave the Spanish colonizers a tremendous control though a centralized police administration which enabled the sumpreme head to determine the policies to be pursued in law enforcement and the maintenance of peace and order. 89. GUARDRILLEROS - The Rural Police during the Spanish regime in the Philippines established in each town. The law provided thatnfive percent (5%) of able bodied male inhabitants of each province was to be drafted in the police service for a three year tour of duty. 90. GUIDELINES - Refers to rules of action for the rank and file to show them how they are expected to obtain the desired effect. 91. HEADQUARTER PROCEDURES - Usually found on the duty manu because they pertain to the responsibility of one person or one class of persons. Procedures that involve coordinate action on activity of several offices shall be established separately. 92. HIERARCHY - It represents the formal relationship among superiors and subordinates in any given organization. It can be visualized as a ladder, with each rung (or rank) representing a higher or lower level of authority. 93. HOME RULE THEORY - Law enforcers or policeman are regarded as servants of the community, who rely for the efficiency of their functions upon the express needs of the people. In this concept, policeman are civil servants whose key duty is the preservation of publice peace and security. This is practiced in the United States and in England where the governmental structure follows a decentrized pattern. 94. HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - Defined as that area of management concerned with human relations in the police organization. As an overview, Police Personnel Management uses planning, organizing, directing and controlling of day-to- day activities involved in procuring, developing and motivating them and in coordinating their activities to achieve the aims of the police. 95. IAS - Headed by an inspector General the Internal Affairs Service which conduct "motu- propio". automatic investigations of the following cases: Incidents where a police personnel discharges a firearm; Inicdents where deaths, serious physical injury, or any violation of human rights occured in the conduct of police operation; Incidents where evidence was compromised, tampered with, obliterated or lost while in custody of police personnel; Incidents where a suspect in the custody ofnthe police was seriously injured; and Incidents where the established rules of engagement have been violated. 96. IMPOSED POLICY - This type of policy cimes from the government in firms of laws, administrative orders, rules and procedures and specifications. 97. IMMUNITY - It is anprotection from liability in tort due ti status or position. 98. INCOMPETENCY - It is the manifest lack of adequate ability and fitness for the satisfactory performance of police duties. This has reference to any physical, moral or intellectual quality the lack of which substantially incapacities one to perform the duties of a peace officer. 99. INCREMENTAL PLANNING - It cincludes that long range and comprehensive planning are not only too difficult, but inherently bad. The problems are seen as too difficult when they are grouped tigether and easier to solve when they are taken one at a time and broken down into gradual adjustments over time. 100. INFORMATIONAL ROLES - It deals with exchange information with other people such as Monitoring - seeking out relevant information; acting as Disseminator - sharing information with insiders or Spokesperson - sharing information with outsiders.