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INTRODUCTION

PRIMARY GOALS

AREAS OF GROWTH

TIMELINE

SUMMARY

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 EFFECTIVE POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS
PROGRAMS, PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES SPAN
THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES:
1. The entire field of public information designed to bridge any communication
gap between the police entity and the general public:
2. The public relations intended to maintain harmony and mutual support
between the police and community development; and
3. The mass communications for the purpose of conditioning both the friendly
and the hostile public, thereby insuring and facilitating the attainment the
objectives of policing activities.
 FOUNDATIONS OF POLICE COMMUNITY
RELATIONS
Efficient service as the basic foundation of
good police-community relations is true in any
organization more particularly in the police
service whose client is the general public. Since
action is determined by frames of mind, the
police entity should scrutinize their own point
of view to assure that it is proper. heir attitude
will be determined by their concept of police
function, and the stand on their duty toward5

the general public.

The police entity should develop a friendly, impersonal, and
unbiased manner, pleasant and personal in all restrictive
situations but firm and impersonal on occasions calling for
regulation and control. They should understand that they are
police officers and that their primary purpose is to prevent
violations and to arrest offenders. Constant dialogue to help
people build trust and confidence is necessary for long-term
change,
 PRINCIPLES OF POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS
1. PHILOSOPHY AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY
-POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS IS BOTH A PHILOSOPHY AND AN
ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY THAT ALLOW THE POLICE ENTITY AND THE
COMMUNITY-MEMBERS TO WORK CLOSELY TOGETHER IN CREATIVE WAYS TO
SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF CRIME, ILLICIT DRUGS, FEAR OF CRIME, PHYSICAL
AND SOCIAL DISORDER, NEIGHBORHOOD DECAY AND IN IMPROVING THE
OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE SOCIETY.
2. COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
-POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS AS AN ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, FIRST
DEMANDS THAT EVERYONE IN THE POLICE ORGANIZATION MUST INVESTIGATE
WAYS TO TRANSLATE THE PHILOSOPHY OF POWER-SHARING INTO PRACTICE.
THE PEOPLE MUST SHARE THE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IMPLICIT IN
IDENTIFYING, PRIORITIZING AND SOLVING PROBLEMS AS FULL-FLEDGED
PARTNERS OF THE POLICE HIERARCHY.
 PRINCIPLES OF POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS
3. DECENTRALIZED AND PERSONALIZED POLICING
-TO IMPLEMENT TRUE POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS, POLICE
ORGANIZATION MUST ALSO CREATE AND DEVELOP A NEW BREED OF LINE
OFFICER WHO ACTS ASA DIRECT LINK BETWEEN THE POLICE ENTITY AND THE
COMMUNITY-MEMBERS. AS THE POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS
SPECIALISTS, THEY HAVE TO MAINTAIN FACE-TO-FACE CONTACT WITH THE
PEOPLE THEY SERVE WITH CLEARLY DEFINED GOALS AND PURPOSE.
4. IMMEDIATE AND LONG-TERM PROACTIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
-THE POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS BROAD ROLE DEMANDS CONTINUOUS,
SUSTAINED CONTACT WITH THE LAW-ABIDING PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY,
SO THAT THE POLICE ORGANIZATION AND THE COMMUNITY-MEMBERS CAN
EXPLORE CREATIVE NEW SOLUTIONS TO LOCAL CONCEMS AND PROBLEMS,
WITH PRIVATE CITIZENS SERVING AS SUPPORTERS AND VOLUNTEERS.
 PRINCIPLES OF POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS
5. ETHICS, LEGALITY, RESPONSIBILITY AND TRUST
-POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS IMPLIES NEW CONTRACT BETWEEN THE POLICE
ORGANIZATION AND THE COMMUNITY-MEMBERS THEY SERVE, ONE THAT OFFERS
HOPE OF OVERCOMING WIDESPREAD APATHY AND INDIFFERENCE. THIS NEW
RELATIONSHIP, BASED ON MUTUAL TRUST AND RESPECT, ALSO SUGGESTS THAT THE
POLICE ENTITY CAN SERVE AS A CATALYST, AND CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO ACCEPT
THEIR SHARED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE IN SOCIETY.
6. EXPANDING THE POLICE MANDATE
-POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS ADDS VITAL, PROACTIVE ELEMENT TO THE
TRADITIONAL REACTIVE ROLE OF THE POLICE ENTITY, RESULTING IN FULL-
SPECTRUM POLICING SERVICE. POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS ALSO BROADENS
THE POLICE ROLE SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE A GREATER IMPACT ON MAKING
CHANGES TODAY THAT HOLD THE PROMISE OF MAKING COMMUNITIES SAFER AND
ATTRACTIVE TO LIVE TOMORROW.
 PRINCIPLES OF POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS
7. HELPING THOSE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
-POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS STRESS EXPLORING NEW WAYS TO PROTECT
AND ENHANCE THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE, I.E.,
JUVENILES, THE ELDERLY, MINORITIES, THE POOR, THE DISABLED, AND THE
HOMELESS. IT BOTH ASSIMILATES AND BROADENS THE SCOPE OF PREVIOUS
OUTREACH EFFORTS SUCH AS CRIME PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY-
MEMBERS ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT.
8. GRASS-ROOTS CREATIVITY AND SUPPORT
POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS PROMOTES THE JUDICIOUS USE OF
TECHNOLOGY, BUT IT ALSO RESTS ON THE BELIEF THAT NOTHING S SURPASSES
WHAT DEDICATED HUMAN BEINGS THAT IS TALKING AND WORKING TOGETHER
CAN ACHIEVE. IT INVESTS TRUST IN THOSE WHO ARE THE FRONTLINES ON THE
STREET, RELYING ON THEIR COMBINED JUDGMENT, WISDOM, AND EXPERIENCE
TO CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY'S CONCERNS,
 PRINCIPLES OF POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS
9. INTERNAL CHANGE
POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS MUST BE A FULLY INTEGRATED APPROACH
THAT INVOLVES EVERYONE IN THE ORGANIZATION, WITH POLICE OFFICERS
SERVING AS GENERALISTS WHO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE POLICE
ENTITY AND THE PEOPLE THEY SERVE. IT ALSO PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE BY
PROVIDING INFORMATION, AND TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF THE
COMMUNITY-MEMBERS OF ITS PROBLEMS.
10. BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS PROVIDE DECENTRALIZED, PERSONALIZED
POLICE SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY-MEMBERS. IT RECOGNIZES THAT THE
POLICE ORGANIZATION CANNOT IMPOSE ORDER ON THE SOCIETY FROM THE
OUTSIDE, BUT THAT PEOPLE MUST BE ENCOURAGED TO THINK OF THE POLICE
HIERARCHY AS A RESOURCE THAT THEY CAN USE IN HELPING TO SOLVE
CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY'S CONCERNS.
 Perspectives on Police-Community
Relations
Every member of the police organization shall strictly adhere to the following
perspectives of police-community relations, to wit:
1. Public support must be maintained. Every police officers shall be worthy of
the public's trust and confidence if they do their job well and leaves nothing
unaccomplished through carelessness. They shall app able and willing to
serve the community-members.
2. Public resentment must be avoided. Individual police officers sha always
bear in their mind the interest of the public and shall develo friendly
relations by their good conduct. They shall avoid any occasion humiliate,
embarrass, annoy, or cause inconvenience to any individual.
 Perspectives on Police-Community
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goodwill must be developed. Every police officer must
courteous, fair, and quick to assist individuals in the solution of the
problems. But police officer can do little without community-
members cooperation and assistance.
4.The public must be kept informed on regulations and policies.
Individual police officers must inform the public on the regulations
and policies of the police organization, and the reason for its
adoption. Thus, they should adhere to the principles of transparency
and accountability.
 Objectives of Police-Community Relations
1. To maintain and develop the goodwill and confidence of the community-
members for the police organization;
2. to obtain public cooperation and assistance, and to develop public
understanding, support, and appreciation for the police service;
3. To gain a broader understanding and sympathy for the problems and needs of
the police organization;
4. To facilitate law enforcement and compliance, and to build public opinion in
favor of the police organization; and
5. To achieve the police organization's purpose of preserving peace, protecting life
and property, and preventing crimes.
Purpose of Police-Community Relations
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relations should be conveyed to the public's principle in all the policies and procedures pertaining to any
idea that in performing certain functions, police-community relations' programs, projects and activities. The
especially those performed by public entities, police organization is institution concerned with social problems.
Therefore, it is an entity which the society often rallies in times of
the responsibilities rest, not only on the tensions and emergencies. Moreover, the police organization
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 Setting-Up Police-Community Relations
Police-community relations' is like a three-legged stool, and each leg is of equal importance in holding the stool upright.
One leg is public relations, in its traditional sense. Another leg is community service. The third leg is community
participation; and all of this is the facet of the total police-community relations' job that is being given emphasis in the
police entity's work today, and spearheading different programs, projects and activities benefitting the society at large.
Corollary, public relations is the practice of managing the flow of information between an individual or an organization and
the public. community service is an activity that is performed by police offices or the police organization for the benefit of
the public or its institutions; while community-members participation is key to building an empowered society, it is also a
critical approach in crime prevention and control.
In effect, it involves an inter-professional or teamwork approach to a wide number and variety of community-members
problems in which the police entity and other social institutions have a common stake. Stated otherwise, people learn from
one another as they develop respect for those who are in some ways different from them or otherwise. This suggests that
problem-solving can be an exciting educational experience.
It suggests the idea of the police officers as community-leaders, profoundly engaged in preventive policing that is the
blending of effective police and community relations as distinguished from tactical policing, ie, concerned only with what is
to be after a crime or major disorder. It portrays the police officers as a "professional citizen," and will gradually rid them of
what has been called the "paranoia" complex, and which is considered as dangerous inroads in policing activities.
Therefore, setting-up of good police-community relations programs in the different levels of the police hierarchy, from
national, provincial, city and municipality is a must, utilizing its concepts at its best in providing opportunity to the police
organization and to the community-members to interact. This is especially important in some community-members that may
not feel at ease to raise issues about the police hierarchy publicly.
 Individual Police-Community Relations
1. Domestic Relations: This consists of the police officers' dealings with their families, parents and immediate
relatives, with whom they have good relationships in order to develop a respectable family prestige, and as well as
having a cordial police-community relations. In the common practice, domestic relations are a broad category that
encompasses relations from within immediate families.
2. Community Relations:This is made up of the police officers' dealings with the citizens of the community or
locality where a person lives, their membership or contributions to civic undertakings and their membership or
contributions to the socio-civic organization or community associations from within the e locality wherein policing
activities a same are being spearheaded.
3. Neighborhood Relations: This consists of the police officers' dealings with the members of the neighborhood who
constitute a vital link to develop good reputation in the community. This is due to the fact that the community-
members of the neighborhood are the persons in the right position to attest the personality of police officers in
public and private life.
4. Church Relations: This consists of the police officers' dealings with religio congregations of the faith to which
they belong. Religious affiliation the part of the police officers, individually or collectively is necessary for the
stability of moral and ethical principles. Active involvement religious activities also helps builds the positive image
of police officers
5. Government Relations: This is made up of the police officers' dealings with various government agencies and its
various instrumentalities. The recognition of government authority, its laws, ordinances and resolutions, as well a
other public responsibilities are considered as significant phases of a individual police officers' government's
relations.
 Professional Police-Community Relations
1. Intra-Departmental Relations This is made up of the police officers' dealings with the rank and fi in their own police
organization, their superiors, the police executives, a as well as the local chief executive and august body of the locality whe
they are assigned, including the different local government agencies a its instrumentalities.
2. nter-Departmental Relations This is manifested by the police officers' rapport and linkages with other law enforcement
agencies as evident by their cooperation with other international bodies, and other law enforcement agencies of the
government. This also includes the mutual relationship that exists from the different pillars of the criminal justice system.
3. Citizens' Relations This includes all the dealings or contacts of police officers' with the citizens they serve in relation to the
enforcement of the law and the maintenance of peace and order, and ensuring of public safety and security, including the
giving of information to the public for future reference or advisory.
4. Complaint Relations This includes how the police officers deals with complaints, the techniques of interviews they uses, the
manner of approach they adopts. the treatment of victims, witnesses, as well as informant, and people of different walks of
life that can shed light in the resolution of the case under investigation.
5. Relations with Accused Persons This covers the proper treatment of suspects, the recognition of their constitutional rights
during custodial investigation and the handling of the accused during arrest and custody. Taking into consideration the rules
of law that the accused must be presumed innocent until the contrary has been proven otherwise; and that is beyond
reasonable doubt.
6. Relations with State Prosecutors or Fiscals This includes the police officers' duty to cooperate during preliminary
investigation by gathering evidence once the case is filed by the fiscal. This also includes cooperating with the fiscal in the
litigation of criminal cases by offering themselves as witnesses in presentation of eviden during trial on merits.
7. Judicial Relations This consists of the peace officers' duties toward the courts when appearing as witnesses, and the honesty
of their testimony during trial the case. This also involves the observance of the police officers' on the rules of law,
including the policies, procedures and regulations issued by the justices of the peace, relative with the disposal of the
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Importance of police-community relations
when there are good police-community
relations, the police organization have a better
understanding of the public's concerns, and
citizens are more inclined to report crimes
that occur, provide information to be used in
law enforcement, willingly serve as
witnesses, and are happy to participate in
court trials. By extension, the police
organization also become more proactive,
thereby preventing crimes before they occur
minimizing their impact, instead of simply
reacting to calls for service.
good police-community relations prevent the possibility that
the public thinks that police entity is simply a mechanism for
intelligence collection. When there are poor police-
community relations, the police typically lack a basic
understanding of neighborhood problems, goals and desires of
the community-members, particularly those people in
localities who are experiencing high rates of crime, poverty,
homelessness, and those who perceive the police organization
occupied, and out-of-touch entity that do more harm than
good. And as pre occupied, and out of touch entity that do
more harm than good.
In these situations, the police organization primarily assumes
a reactive mode of response to community problems. In sum,
police- community relations refer to the ongoing and changing
relationship between the police entity and the community-
members they serve. This includes issues of cooperation from
stakeholders, indigenous people's relations, fear of police,
brutalities, abuses, and graft and corruption.
 Duties of Police-Community Relations

1. To evaluate public opinion and attitude with respect to the policies, methods, practices,
and procedures of the police officers in particular, and the police organization in general.
2. To advise the local police executive with regard to the public relations aspects of new or
revised organizational programs, projects, and activities.
3. To make plans and to carry out programs, projects, and activities aimed at keeping the
public informed on police administrative and operational undertakings.
4. To provide supervision on all police program, projects and activities that may influence
the public opinion on its image, including their active participation and cooperation in
crime prevention and control.
 Paradox of Police-Community Relations
The police-community relations' is media personality and primarily aimed at informing the public, and which is often
concerned with the "police image." However, the police officers weakness in many parts of the country today is
perhaps the greatest obstacle to effective policing, and the improvement of trust and confidence between the police
organization and the community-members they are tasked to "serve and protect.“
The police-community relations' is a friend in need. The telephone numbers have a special place in the directory, and
many of them post it at some convenient spot, for immediate use. It is a police organization's function to whom the
people instinctively turn when all fails. It is the most versatile public service from within the police organization.
The police-community relations' is human. If it is not human being they would lack the courage to risk lives and limbs
in pursuit of the speeding criminals that makes a death trap of the roads. If it is not human, it cannot face the gunfire,
which individual police officers knows from common experience relative with the performance of mandated powers
and functions, and even the community-members may possibly encounter.
The police-community relations' is now a Constitutional lawyer in some of the most sensitive areas of the law.
Decisions on the Constitution. handed down by the Supreme Court during the recent years, require that the police
officers should not make an arrest until they have established that probable cause exists.
The police-community relations' is a person where the people demand the ultimate dignity. Like Caesar's wife, it must
not only above sin but also above the suspicion of sin. In a society in which the complimentary lunch often leads to a
favor, the police officers have to buy in their own and less they will compromise their official duties and
responsibilities, and mandated powers and functions.
The police-community
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relations' is a totality of different personalities that can play the role of foster parents,
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brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and that is always available to offer their helping hands, their wisdom, and
even their precious lives and limbs for the service of God. country, environment and people.
 Improving Police-Community Relations
1. Improve Police Accountability
-Accountability is the first and best step.
When the public feels that the police
organization fails to address, or covers-
up completely the police officers
transgressions, it promotes the feeling
that the community- members cannot
trust the police hierarchy, especially
when other police officers are involved.
The police entity needs to be open and
honest with internal investigations of
police complaints. They need to stop
attempting to intimidate individuals who
come to them with complaints about the
police officers in particular and the
police organization in general.
2. Increase Mutual
Understanding
-As for mutual understanding, the
public is well aware that the average
3. Build Healthier Communities
-Building healthier communities takes
police officers' day can be stressful, but
everything from a philosophic and
again, that is not excuse for being rude,
obnoxious, and downright aggressive.
economic rationale to the nuts and bolts.
Police officers need to be reminded that
The people in a healthy neighborhood
are safe and secured, are well informed,
they are public servants, not judge,
feel that they are empowered to
prosecutor, and correctional
participate in police-decision making
administrator. They need to realize that
process, and have a lasting bond
the public has rights secured by the
between them and the police
Constitution which trumps any other
organization. Achieving this end can be
rules, laws, or police organization's
made in determining the breeding
practice. They need to stop treating
grounds of social decays through social-
these rights as if they were negotiable
or non-existent.
investigation, and by subsequently
initiating programs, projects and
activities capable of addressing the
prevailing situation in the locality.
 VMOS OF POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS

THE VISION OF THE POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS, STATES

THAT "THE POLICE- COMMUNITY RELATIONS ENVISIONS THE
EVOLUTION OF POLICE OFFICES AND POLICE OFFICERS INTO
A "COMMUNITY AND SERVICE" ORIENTED ORGANIZATION
AND INDIVIDUALS THAT IS WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A
COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY. MEMBERS TOWARDS A
PEACEFUL, ORDERLY AND HARMONIOUS INTERACTIONS."
THE MISSION STATES THAT, "THE POLICE-COMMUNITY
RELATIONS SHALL DEVELOP GUIDE AND STEER A
"COMMUNITY AND SERVICE ORIENTED" POLICE
ORGANIZATION IN FORGING RELATIONSHIP, INFORMING,
PERSUADING, SHAPING PERCEPTION, AND MOBILIZING THE
COMMUNITY-MEMBERS TOWARDS THE NEED FOR RESPECT
FOR LAWS MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND ORDER, AND
SAFETY OF ENVIRONMENT."
The objectives of the police-community relations are as follows:

1. Formulates police-community relations plans, programs, projects and activities geared towards enhancing
the people and citizen's participation in support of the operational plans of the police hierarchy.
2. Exercises supervision in the planning, direction, coordination, supervision and monitoring of all programs,
projects, and activities pertaining to public information that enhances police community relations
3. Develops programs, projects, and activities designed to generate and shape good public perception towards
the government in general, and the police hierarchy in particular;
4. Conduct studies and researches to assist national policy-makers in developing laws, and programs,
projects, and activities 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:
5. Forges relationship with the community-members and assists other government agencies and non-
government organizations in the conduct of mobilization activities that is contributory to the maintenance
of peace order and safety, and
6. Conducts coordination and liaisons, and appropriate policing work for foreign nationals and indigenous
people, living, in transients or doing business in the country.