MID-TERM

Test I: Analyze carefully the statements or questions before answering by choosing the correct answer
by encircling the corresponding letter of your choice.

1. A firm choose to operate under is an important decision with implications for how a firm structures its
resources and assets.

a. Legal form b. Police report c. Informal report d. Formal report

2. Any written matter prepared by the Police involving their inter action with the community. It is the
exact narration of facts discovered during the course of crime investigation.

a. Police report b. Legal form c. Informal report d. Formal report

3. A letter or memorandum or any one of many prescribed or used in day-by-day police operations.
Most police reports may be placed in this category.

a. Legal form b. Police report c. Informal report d. Formal report

4. Suggest a full dress treatment, including cover, the title page ,letter of transmittal, summary sheet,
text, appendixes, and perhaps an index and bibliography.

a. Informal report b. Legal form c. Formal report d. Police Report

5. Means or instruments used in the commission of the crime.

a. Motive b. Instrumentalities c. Opportunities d. Legal form

6. Consist of the acts of omission and/or commission by a person(the victim) which enable another
person or group of persons(the criminal) to penetrate the crime.

a. Motive b. Opportunities c. Instrumentalities d. Legal form

7. A reason for doing something, especially one that is hidden or not obvious.

a. Instrumentalities b. Motives c. Legal form d. Opportunities

8. Police report must be clear and it should be written directly and easy to understand.

a. Accuracy b. Brevity c. Completeness d. Clarity

9. Police report must conform with the established rules of syntax, format, spelling and grammar. The
data presented must be precise and information given must be factual.

a. Completeness b. Clarity c. Brevity d. Accuracy

10.Police report must be short with simple sentences, common words and easy to understand

a. Brevity b. Accuracy c. Completeness d. Specificity

11. The police report must be complete by using the 5W's and 1H.

a. Security b. Completeness c. Specificity d. Brevity

12. The police report must be considered classified, hence, transmission, handling, and access to these
should be limited only to police personnel who are granted by higher authority.

a. Impartiality b. Security c. Security d. Specificity

13. It is the collection of and analysis of facts, truth about persons, things, places, subject of a crime to
identify the guilty party.

a. Legal Form b. Police Report c. Police visibility d. criminal Investigation

14. Data gathered from other persons, the victim and from other records such as public records, private
records. Modus Operandi.

a. Instrumentation b. Interrogation c. Legal form d. Information

15. Skillful questioning of witness and suspects.

a. Information b. Instrumentation c. Interrogation d. Police report

16. Scientific Examination of real evidence, applications of instruments and methods of physical sciences
in detecting crime such as dactyloscopy, ballistics, photography, polygraphy.

a. Interrogation b. Instrumentation c. Information d. Police report

17. Orders or directives covering organizational set up, functional duties, constitutional committees

a. General orders b. Memoranda c. Special orders d. Numbered memorandum

18. Dealing on assignments, transfer, temporary duty or special training of personnel.

a. Special order b. General orders c. Memoranda d. Numbered memorandum

19. Is a department-wide directions or orders prescribing guidelines, standing procedures, policies, rules
and regulations which are intended for compliance.

a. General orders b. Numbered memorandum c. Special Orders d. Memoranda

20. Form of dissemination of directives or orders which are intended for compliance/implementation on
temporary basis or lasting only for the short of time.

a. Legal Form b. Police Report c. Memoranda d. Special orders

TEST II: Discuss briefly the following

1. Police Report - is any written matter prepared by the police involving their inter action with the
community. Moreover, it is also an exact narration of facts discovered during the course of crime
investigation which serves as a permanent written record for future reference.

2. Legal Forms - It is a tool or document for use in a legal transaction or legal proceeding that includes
the key essentials, appropriate technical terms or terminology, and any additional documentation
necessary to do so. give it formal accuracy, be organized in an appropriate and systematic sequence,
and are conducive to adjusting to the circumstances of the particular case.

3. Police Visibility - Police visibility is the visibility of a police officer to a community or in a public place
to prevent or reduce the crime in the community to be able to support or help the people in the
community.

4. Elements for a crime to happen

For any crime to happen, there are three elements or ingredients that must be present at the same time
and place. These are the MOTIVES, the INSTRUMENTALITIES, and the OPPORTUNITIES.

INSTRUMENTALITIES Are the means or instruments used in the commission of the crime. It could be
firearm, a bolo, a fan knife, an icepick, poison or obnoxious substance, a crow bar, a battery-operated
hand drill for carnapping, motor vehicle, etc.

OPPORNUTITIES It consists of the acts of commission and/ or commission by a person (the victim)
which enable another person or group of persons (the criminal/s) to perpetrate the crime

MOTIVES A reason for doing something, especially one that is hidden or not obvious.

5. Tools of an investigator in gathering facts(3I'S).

INFORMATION Data gathered from other persons, the victim and other records such as public records,
private records. Modus Operandi file.

INTERROGATION Skillful questioning of witnesses and suspects

INSTRUMENTATION Scientific examination of real evidence, application of instruments and methods

of physical sciences in detecting crime such as microscope, dactyloscopy, ballistics, photography, and
others.

6. Notebook and journal entries for?

The notebook is one of the basic piece equipment which a number of policemen now a days fail to
appreciate and utilize. The notebook shall be playing a significant role as all subsequent actions
expected of the Police Community Precincts Commander (and even personnel from higher
headquarters) will depend on matters recorded in the notebook which eventually will have to be
reflected in the PBS journal.

Journals exclusively for the PBS shall be maintained at each Police Community Precincts. While
recording matters in the matters in the journal shall be the individual responsibility of every Beat
Policeman, taking action and reporting matters reflected therein shall be the duty of the Police
Community Precincts Commander.

7. Formal report

FORMAL REPORT A formal report suggests a full-dress treatment, including cover, title page, letter of
transmittal, summary sheet, text, appendixes, and perhaps an index and bibliography.

8. Informal report

An informal report usually is a letter or memorandum or any one of ma prescribed or used in dayby-
day police operations. It customarily caries three items besides the text proper; date submitted,
subject, and persons or person to whom submitted. It may, however, contain many items of
administrative importance along with the subject matter of the text. Actually, most of police reports
may be placed in this category.

9. Needed in preparing and writing a report

The police writer will make an outline from the facts of the case and follow a chronological sequence.
After an outline has been identified they will make sure that their notes will be organized and
reviewed first for completeness prior to the actual writing of the report. The outline should answer
the 5Ws and 1H the facts presented in Report Writing should prove the importance of police report.
The real answer lies in the quantity of the result of accomplishment and basic principles. The police
reports are simple, brief memorandum to a complex. Formal investigation requires the application of
the basic standards such as clear, pertinent, brief, complete, current, accurate, fair, properly classified,
informative, and objective. It should be submitted in proper format and should be on time.

10. How are police reports categorized?

A. OPERATIONAL REPORTS

Operational reports included those relating to the reporting of police incidents, investigations, arrests,
identification of persons, and mass of miscellaneous reports necessary to the conduct of routine
police operations

B. INTERNAL BUSINESS REPORTS

Internal business reports relate to the reporting necessary to the management of the agency and
include financial reports, personal reports, purchase reports, equipment reports, property
maintenance reports, and general correspondence.

C. TECHNICAL REPORTS

Technical reports present data on any specialized subject, but usually relate to completed staff work
and add to the specific knowledge necessary to proper functioning of police management.

D. SUMMARY REPORTS

Summary reports furnish intelligence information necessary to the solution of crime accident, and
police administrative problems