Police

Community
Relations
LESSON GOAL

This lesson intends to elaborate

Police Community Relations and its
mandates for a clearer perspective on
the subject matter.
LESSON OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the participants will be
able to understand the following:

VISION
MISSION
FUNCTIONS
OBJECTIVES
INTRODUCTION
Public relations is often concerned with the
“police image”. Police-community relations is
aimed at establishing a dialogue with the police.
Community policing is a broad term which involves
pro active programmes designed to integrate
police-community relations with actual police work.
VISION
The DPCR envisions the evolution of Police
Units and Police Officers into a “community and
service” oriented organization working in
partnership with a cooperative community
towards a peaceful, orderly, safer and
harmonious community interactions.
MISSION
The DPCR shall develop, guide and steer a
“community and service oriented” police
organization in forging relationship with,
informing, persuading, shaping perception of,
and mobilizing the communities towards the
need for respect for laws, maintenance of
peace and orderliness, and safety of
environment.
FUNCTIONS
1. Formulates Police Community Relations (PCR) plans,
programs, and policies geared towards enhancing
community and citizen’s participation in support of the
operational plans of the Philippine National Police;
2. Exercises primary staff supervision in the planning,
direction, coordination, supervision and monitoring of all
programs and activities pertaining to Public Information
that enhances Police Community Relations (PCR);
FUNCTIONS
3. Develops plans and programs designed to generate
and shape good public perception towards the
government in general and the PNP in particular.
4. Conducts studies and researches to assist national
policy-makers in developing laws, plans and programs
that are community based, service oriented and gender
sensitive, and are geared towards the maintenance of
peace and order and the enhancement of public safety;
FUNCTIONS
5. Forges relationship with communities and assists other
government agencies and Non-Government Organizations
(NGOs) in the conduct of community mobilization activities
contributory to the maintenance of peace, order and
safety; and
6. Conducts coordination and liaising, and appropriate
policing work for foreign nationals and cultural minorities,
living, in transient or doing business in the Philippines.
OBJECTIVES

 To restore public trust and confidence in the

PNP; and
 To improve community participation and
inter-agency coordination in support police
activities.
One of the fundamental keys to successful law
enforcement is good police-community
relations, or the relationship between the
police and the communities they serve.