BATAAN HEROES COLLEGE

PRE-TEST IN LEA 4
LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS AND PLANNING WITH CRIME MAPPING

Directions. Select the letter of the correct answer and write it on the space provided.
___D___1. The process of visualizing future situations, identifying the issues, and advance determination
of how the goals/objectives of an organization will be attained.
a. Controlling
b. Directing
c. Organizing
d. Planning
___C___2. It is the systematic and orderly determination of facts and events as basis for policy
formulation and decision affecting law enforcement management.
a. Police Planning
b. Police Administration
c. Police Operation
d. Police Strategy
___D___3. It is the development and preparation of techniques and procedures in accomplishing the
primary tasks and functions of an organization.
a. Operational Planning
b. Strategic Planning
c. Police Planning
d. Police Operational Planning
___C___4. A plan of action or a policy designed to attain a stated goal or objectives.
a. Tactics
b. Policy
c. Procedures
d. Strategy
___D___5. The following are the types of Plans, EXCEPT__________.
a. Reactive plans
b. Proactive Plans
c. Visionary Plans
d. Stationary Plans
___C___6. It involves the supervision and overseeing of human resources and organization’s various
activities to attain, through cooperative efforts, the predetermined organizational goals and objectives.
a. Controlling
b. Directing
c. Organizing
d. Planning
___C___7. The following are the steps in Police Operational Planning, EXCEPT________.
a. Frame of Reference
b. Developing the Facts
c. Selling the plans
d. Plan Implementation
___B___8. What is the right to exercise, decide, and to command by virtue of rank and position?
a. Leadership
b. Authority
c. Chief of Police
d. Commisioned Officer
___A___9. 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 goals and
objectives.
a. Operational Planning
b. Strategic Planning
c. Police Planning
d. Police Operational Planning
___A___10. The following are the objectives of planning, EXCEPT__________
a. Improve analysis of the problem
b. Improve the performance of the program
c. Give the organization a clear sense of direction.
d. Intensify policies and procedures.
___C___11. The following are the functions of Police Officer during police operations,
EXCEPT_________.
a. To protect lives and property
b. To respect Human Rights
c. To observe the human dignity of persons
d. To serve and protect a person’s illegal activities and unlawful acts.
___B___12. What is the category of police operations that includes Search, Rescue and Retrieval
Operations, Fire Drills, Earthquake Drills, and similar operations that promote public Safety?
a. Public Safety Operations
b. Disaster Risk Reduction Operations
c. Internal Security Operations
d. Law Enforcement Operation
___B___13. In police intervention, the verbal warning shall NOT_________________.
a. be in the dialect that is known to the offender or in the national language.
b. consist of the following: police officer identifying himself; his intention; and what he wants
the offender to do.
c. be done in the national language followed by a demonstrative act of police officer’s intent if
the offender is a foreigner.
d. be done in a loud and clear manner.
___D___14. In any police operation, what is a must to avoid waste of time, effort, and resources?
a. Knowledgeable team leader
b. Camaraderie and cooperation of members
c. Careful planning
d. Responsible community
___A___15. When are Mobile checkpoints authorized?
a. When arresting wanted persons on board motor vehicles.
b. When the police must arrest topmost wanted persons.
c. Only when established in conjunction with ongoing police operations.
d. Only when ordered by higher headquarters.
___B___16. The following are the rights of a person arrested, with or without warrant,
EXCEPT________.
a. the right to bail.
b. the right to physical examination.
c. the right to communicate with his lawyer or his immediate family.
d. the right to be informed of his constitutional right to remain silent and that any statement he
makes could be used against him.
___B___17. What should a police officer do when there are other suspects aside from the driver?
a. Use one handcuff to handcuff them together.
b. Separate them from one another.
 c. Determine who should be and who should not be arrested.
d. Ask for backup because they might attack you with their number.
___C___18. Could arrest be made even without a valid Warrant of Arrest issued by a competent
authority?
a. No, except in instances where the law allows warrantless arrest.
b. Yes, but the arresting officer must, at all times, observe human rights.
c. Yes, when the person to be arrested belongs to the topmost wanted person.
d. No, arresting a person without a valid warrant is a violation of his Constitutional Rights.
___C___19. As a rule, when is arrest made?
a. Arrests are made on weekdays only so that the suspect could avail of the services of the
courts.
b. Arrests can only be made during daytime and any day of the week.
c. Arrests can only be made during daytime as it is too risky for the police to do it during
nighttime.
d. Arrests can be made on any day of the week and at any time of the day and night.
___D___20. PCI Juan Tamad, together with his companions, was conducting a checkpoint, when a car
with blue colored plates was about to pass by. Should they inspect said motor vehicle?
a. No, Diplomatic Agents, Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, should not
be arrested r inspected.
b. Yes, Diplomats are immune from arrest but their cars re not immune from the inspection.
c. No, Diplomats are immune from arrest so as their cars are immune from the inspection
d. Yes, but the search to be conducted must be limited to a visual search only.
____A__21. The following properties may be the objects of a search warrant, EXCEPT________.
a. Properties which are the subject of the offense.
b. Stolen, embezzled proceeds, or fruits of the offense.
c. Objects including weapons, equipment, and other items used or intended to be used as the
means of committing an offense.
d. Personal properties of the most corrupt public officials.
__A____22. Who is appointed by the Unit Commanders who shall be responsible in consolidating and
maintaining crime data files of each unit to ensure consistency and continuity?
a. Investigator-on-case
b. Chief Investigator
c. Crime Registrar
d. Crime Operative
___B___23. Who shall assume the responsibility over the crime scene and shall conduct a thorough
assessment of the scene and inquiry into the incident?
a. Chief of Police
b. SOCO Team
c. First Responder
d. Investigator-On-case
___D__24. What is undertaken to arrested suspects to record and document the information surrounding
their arrest?
a. Investigation
b. Criminal Processing
c. Booking
d. Interrogation
__D___25. Pedro is a police officer, and he found a person in the time and place proximate to an alleged
crime. What should Pedro do?
a. The person might have something to do with the crime, probably as look out, an accessory or
accomplice.
b. Tell the person to evacuate the place, as he might be considered “person of interest”.
c. Arrest the individual and bring him to the police station for tactical interrogation.
 d. Stop the individual and conduct spot check on his person.
__C___26. While patrolling, an individual flees when he sees you, what should you do?
a. Follow him to check on what he is up to.
b. Arrest the individual and bring him to the police station for tactical interrogation.
c. Stop the individual and conduct spot check on his person.
d. Call for backup and chase the fleeing individual.
__B___27. When can a police officer stop an individual for the purpose of conducting a spot
check/accosting?
a. If the individual is in possession of firearm or deadly weapon.
b. Only when reasonable reason exists.
c. When the person looks threatening or dangerous.
d. The individual is in possession of deadly face.
__C___28. What is the most important thing a Patrol Officer should do when responding to street fights
or brawls?
a. Inform higher headquarters about the brawl.
b. The patrol officer should be able to identify who started the brawl.
c. The patrol officer should call for back-up before intervening.
d. The patrol officer should let a warning shot to call the attention of the individuals fighting.
__D___29. When is the use of firearm during police operations unjustified?
a. If the offender poses imminent danger of causing injury to the police officer or other person.
b. The use of firearms is justified under the doctrines of self-defense, defense of relatives, and
defense of a stranger.
c. When the person looks threatening and extremely dangerous.
d. If the offender poses imminent danger of causing death to the police officer or other person.
__C___30. In accosting the suspects, when is the failure to issue a verbal warning excusable?
a. When a police officer has no time to inform the suspects?
b. When the suspect is dangerous as he is in possession of a high-powered firearm.
c. When a police officer encountered dozen or more suspects and he can nor outrun them.
d. In cases where threat to life and property is already imminent, and there is no other option but
to use force to subdue the offender.
___D__31. The process through which crime analysts and researchers use location information about
crime events to detect spatial patterns in criminal activity.
a. Crime Statistics
b. Crime Mapping
c. Crime Analysis
d. None of the choices.
__C___32. Could cellphones, computers/laptops or any other electronic equipment or gadgets found
during an anti-illegal drug operations be seized?
a. No, lawful personal properties must not be seized.
b. No, they are not stated or included in the search warrant.
c. Yes, because they might have been used in drug transactions.
d. Yes, they should be properly preserved for evidentiary purposes and technical exploitation.
__B___33. The police officer shall take the statement of a child in the presence of the following,
EXCEPT_______.
a. The child’s counsel of choice or in the absence thereof, a lawyer from the PAO>
b. The child’s parent, guardian, or nearest relatives.
c. LSWDO
d. The barangay captain or any other barangay official.
___A__34. What is designed to predict or prevent the probability of occurrence or crisis at the same time
to prepare to handle them when such occur?
 a. Preventive c. Reactive
b. Proactive d. Suppressive
__A___35. In cases of armed confrontation wherein the suspect dies, what should the team leader of the
operating Unit do prior to the removal of the dead body from the scene?
a. Notify the nearest kin or relatives of the dead person.
b. Submit the incident for inquest before the duty Inquest Prosecutor.
c. Identify the dead person.
d. Ask the scene of the crime operation team to process the scene.
___C___36. Below are the characteristics of a good plan, EXCEPT__________________.
a. A Plan must have a clearly defined objective
b. A Plan must be simple, direct and clear
c. A Plan must provide standards of operation
d. None of the choices.
__D____37. This is intended to be used in all situations of all kinds, which shall be outlined to guide
officers and men in the field.
     A. Field Procedure
     B. Headquarter's Procedure
     C. Special Operating Procedure
     D. None of the Above
__D___38. It is the basic principle in planning, organizing, and management of the PNP in support of the
overall pursuit of the PNP vision, mission, and strategic action plan of
   the national objective.
     A. Fundamental Doctrine
     B. Operational Doctrine
     C. Functional Doctrine
     D. None of the Above
__B____39. Plans for the operation of special divisions like patrol, detective, traffic, vice, and juvenile
control division.
     A. Procedural Plan
     B. Tactical Plan
     C. Operational Plan
     D. Extra-Office Plan
___B___40. An organization is more effective if it enables the individual to contribute to the
organization.
     A. Principle of Unity of Objective
     B. Principle of Organizational Efficiency
     C. The Scalar Principle
     D. Functional Principle

ESSAY. Answer the following questions briefly.

41-45. Why does planning important in Law Enforcement Operations?
Yes, because planning 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.________________________________________________________________________________
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46-50. As a Criminology student, what do you think is the essence of studying Law Enforcement
Operations and Planning?
As a criminology student the essence of studying law enforcement operations and planning is the safety
of the community and a strong relationship with the community is critical to the success of every law
enforcement
organization.__________________________________________________________________________
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Prepared by:

MARIA LOUELLA C. FLORO, RCrim., LPT, MAEd (Ongoing)

Instructor I