Time-specific Plans are concerned with a specific purpose and conclude when an objective is accomplished or a problem is solved. Specific police programs or projects such as

drug crackdown, crime prevention program, and neighborhood clean-up campaign are good examples of time-specific plans.

KINDS OF POLICE PLANS

Policy and Procedural Plans – to properly achieve the administrative planning

responsibility within in the unit, the Commander shall develop unit plans relating to: (a) policies or procedure; (b) tactics; (c) operations; (d) extra-office activities; and (e) management.

Further, standard-operating procedures shall be planned to guide members in routine and field operations and in some special operations in accordance with the following procedures:

Field Procedure – Procedures intended to be used in all situations of all kinds shall be outlined as a guide to officers and men in the field. Examples of these procedures are those related to reporting, to dispatching, to raids, arrest, stopping suspicious persons, receiving complaints, touring beats, and investigation of crimes. The use of physical force and clubs, restraining devices, firearms, tear gas and the like shall, in dealing with groups or individuals, shall also be outlined.

Headquarters Procedures – Included in these procedures are the duties of the dispatcher, jailer, matron, and other personnel concerned which may be reflected in the duty manual. Procedures that involve coordinated action on activity of several offices, however, shall be established separately as in the case of using telephone for local or long distance calls, the radio teletype, and other similar devices.

Special Operation Procedures – Certain special operations also necessitate the preparation of procedures as guides. Included are the operation of the special unit charged with the searching and preservation of physical evidence at the crime scenes and accidents, the control of licenses, dissemination of information about wanted persons, inspection of the PNP headquarters, and the like.

Tactical Plans – These are the procedures for coping with specific situations at known locations. Included in this category are plans for dealing with an attack against buildings with alarm systems and an attack against the PNP headquarters by lawless elements. Plans shall be likewise be made for blockade and jail emergencies and for special community events, such as longer public meetings, athletic contests, parades, religious activities, carnivals, strikes,

demonstrations, and other street affairs.

Operational Plans – These are plans for the operations of special divisions like the patrol, detective, traffic, fire and juvenile control divisions. Operational plans shall be prepared to accomplish each of the primary police tasks. For example, patrol activities must be planned, the force must be distributed among the shifts and territorially among beats, in proportion to the needs of the service, and special details must be planned to meet unexpected needs. Likewise in the crime prevention and in traffic, juvenile and vice control, campaigns must be planned and assignments made to assure the accomplishment of the police purpose in meeting both average and regular needs. Each division or unit has primary responsibility to plan operations in its field and also to execute the plans, either by its own personnel or, as staff agency, by utilizing members of the other divisions.

Plans for operations of special division consist of two types, namely: (1) those designed to meet everyday, year-round needs, which are the regular operating program of the divisions;

and (2) those designed to meet unusual needs, the result of intermittent and usually unexpected variations in activities that demand their attention.

Regular Operating Programs – These operating divisions/units shall have specific plans to meet current needs. The manpower shall be distributed throughout the hours of operation and throughout the area of jurisdiction in proportion to need. Assignments schedules shall be prepared that integrate such factors as relief days, lunch periods, hours, nature, and location of regular work. Plans shall assure suitable supervision, which become difficult when the regular assignment is integrated to deal with this short time periodic needs.

Meeting unusual needs – The unusual need may arise in any field of police activity and is nearly always met in the detective, vice, and juvenile divisions by temporary readjustment of regular assignment.

Extra-office Plans – The active interest and the participation of individual citizen is so vital to the success of the PNP programs that the PNP shall continuously seek to motivate,

promote, and maintain an active public concern in its affairs. These are plans made to organize the community to assist in the accomplishment of objectives in the fields of traffic control, organized crime, and juvenile delinquency prevention. The organizations may be called safety councils for crime commissions and community councils for the delinquency prevention. They shall assist in coordinating community effort, in promoting public support, and in combating organized crime. Organization and operating plans for civil defense shall also be prepared or used in case of emergency or war in coordination with the office of the Civil Defense.

Management Plans – Plans of management shall map out in advance all operations involved in the organization management of personnel and material and in the procurement and disbursement of money, such as the following:

Budget Planning – Present and future money needs for personnel, equipment, and capital investments must be estimated. Plans for supporting budget request must be made if needed appropriations are to be obtained.

Accounting Procedures – Procedures shall be established and expenditure reports be provided to assist in making administrative decisions and in holding expenditures within the appropriations.

Specifications and Purchasing Procedures – Specifications shall be drawn for equipment and supplies. Purchasing procedures shall likewise be established to insure the checking of deliveries against specifications of orders. Plans and specifications shall be drafted for new building and for remodeling old ones.

Personnel – Procedures shall be established to assure the carrying out of personnel programs and the allocation of personnel among the component organizational units in proportions need.

Organization – A basic organizational plan of the command/unit shall be made and be posted for the guidance of the force. For the organization to be meaningful, it shall be accompanied by the duty manual which shall define relationships between the

component units in terms of specific responsibilities. The duty manual incorporates rules and regulations and shall contain the following: definition of terms, organization of rank, and the like, provided the same shall not be in conflict with this manual.

FIELD OPERATIONS: How planning affects them?

Field Operations shall be directed by the police commander and the subordinate commanders and the same shall be aimed at the accomplishment of the following primary tasks more effectively and economically:

Patrol – The patrol force shall accomplish the primary responsibility of safeguarding the community through the protection of persons and property, the preservation of the peace, the

prevention of crime, the suppression of criminal activities, the apprehension of criminals, the enforcement of laws and ordinances and regulations of conduct, and performing necessary service and inspections.

Investigation – The basic purpose of the investigation division unit shall be to investigate certain designated crimes and clear them by the recovery of stolen property and the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators. To this end, the investigation division shall supervise the

investigation made by patrolman and undertake additional investigation as may be necessary of all felonies.

Traffic Patrol – Police control of streets or highways, vehicles, and people shall facilitate the safe and rapid movement of vehicles and pedestrians. To this end, the inconvenience, dangers and economic losses that arise from this moment, congestion, delays, stopping and parking of vehicles must be lessened. Control of traffic shall be accomplished in three (3) ways:

a. Causes of accidents and congestion shall be discovered, facts gathered and analyzed for this purpose;

b. Causes shall be remedied, charges shall be made in physical condition that create hazards, and legislation shall be enacted to regulated drivers and pedestrians; and c. The public shall be educated in the provisions of traffic and ordinances. Motorists

and pedestrians shall be trained in satisfactory movement habits, and compliance with regulations shall be obtained by enforcement. The police shall initiate action and coordinate the efforts of the agencies that are concerned in the activities.

Vice Control – It shall be the determined stand of the PNP in the control of vices to treat vice offenses as they shall do to any violation, and to exert efforts to eliminate them, as there attempt to eliminate robbery, theft, and public disturbance. Control of vice, shall be based on law rather than on moral precepts, and intensive operations shall be directed toward their elimination.

A primary interest in vice control results from the close coordination between vice and criminal activities. Constant raids of known vice dens shall be undertaken.

Juvenile Delinquency Control – Effective crime control necessitates preventing the development of individuals as criminals. The police commander shall recognize a need for preventing crime or correcting conditions that induce criminality and by rehabilitating the delinquent.

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES (SOPs)

Standard Operating Procedures or SOPs are products of police operational planning adopted by the police organization to guide the police officers in the conduct of their duties and functions, especially during field operations.

The following are Police Security Service Package of the PNP with the following standard operating procedures and guidelines:

a. SOP #01 – POLICE BEAT PATROL PROCEDURES - This SOP prescribes the basic procedures to be observed by all PNP Units and mobile patrol elements in the conduct of visibility patrols.

b. SOP #02 – BANTAY KALYE - This SOP prescribes the deployment of 85% of the PNP in the field to increase police visibility and intensifies anti-crime campaign nationwide.

c. SOP #03 – SIYASAT - This SOP prescribes the guidelines in the conduct of inspections to ensure police visibility.

d. SOP #4 – REACT 166 - REACT 166 was launched in 1992 as the people’s direct link to the police to receive public calls for assistance and complaints for prompt action by police authorities. This SOP prescribes the procedures in detail of Duty Officers, Telephone Operators and Radio Operators for REACT 166; and their term of duty and

responsibilities.

e. SOP #5 – LIGTAS (ANTI-KIDNAPPING) - With the creation of the Presidential Anti-Organization Crime Task Force (PAOCTF), the PNP is now in support role in campaign against kidnapping in terms of personnel requirements. SOP #5 sets forth the PNP’s guidelines in its fight against kidnapping activities.

f. SOP #6 – ANTI-CARNAPPING - This SOP prescribes the conduct of an all-out and sustained anti carnapping campaign to stop/minimize carnapping activities, neutralize syndicated carnapping groups, identify/prosecute government personnel involved in carnapping activities, and to effectively address other criminal activities related to car napping.

g. SOP #7 – ANTI-TERRORISM - This prescribes the operational guidelines in the conduct of operations against terrorists and other lawless elements involved in terrorist activities.

h. SOP #8 – JOINT ANTI-BANK ROBBERY ACTION COMMITTEE (ANTI-BANK ROBBERY) - This SOP provides overall planning, integration, orchestration or coordination, and monitoring of all efforts to ensure the successful implementation.

i. SOP #9 – ANTI-HIJACKING/HIGHWAY ROBBERY - This SOP sets forth the guidelines and concepts of operations to be observed in the conduct of anti-highway robbery/hold-up/hijacking operations.

j. SOP #10 – PAGLALANSAG/PAGAAYOS-HOPE - This SOP sets forth the concept of operations and tasks of all concerned units in the campaign against Partisan Armed Groups and loose fire.

k. SOP # 11 – MANHUNT BRAVO (NEUTRALIZATION OF WANTED PERSONS) - This SOP sets forth the objectives and concept of operation tasks of all concerned units in the neutralization of wanted persons.

l. SOP #12 – ANTI-ILLEGAL GAMBLING - This SOP sets forth the operational thrusts to be undertaken by the PNP that will spearhead the fight against all forms of illegal gambling nationwide.

m. SOP #13 – ANTI-SQUATTING - This SOP sets forth the concept of operation in the campaign against professional squatters and squatting syndicates.

n. SOP #14 – JERICHO - This SOP prescribes the operational guidelines to be undertaken by the National Headquarter (NHQ) of PNP in the establishment of a quick reaction group that can be detailed with the office of the Secretary of Interior and Local Government (SILG), with personnel and equipment requirements of that reaction group supported by the PNP.

o. SOP #15 – NENA (ANTI-PROSTITUTION/VAGRANCY) - This SOP sets forth the operational thrusts to be undertaken by the PNP that will spearhead the fight against prostitution and vagrancy.

p. SOP #16 – ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY - This prescribes the guidelines to be followed by tasked PNP Units/Offices in enforcing the ban on pornographic pictures, videos and magazines.

q. SOP #17 – GUIDELINES IN THE CONDUCT OF ARREST, SEARCH, AND SEIZURE -This SOP prescribes the procedures and manner of conducting an arrest, raid, search and/or search of person, search of any premises and the seizure of properties pursuant to the 1987 Philippine Constitution, Rules of Court, as amended and updated decision of the Supreme Court.

r. SOP #18 – SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF SANDIGAN MASTER PLAN s. SOP #19 – ANTI-ILLEGAL LOGGING

t. SOP #20 – ANTI-ILLEGAL FISHING u. SOP #21 – ANTI-ILLEGAL DRUGS DISASTER AND EMERGENCY PLANNING

Emergency and disaster planning is one of the most important interrelated function in a security system. It is important in any organization as physical security, fire protection, guard forces, security of documents and personnel security.

Emergency and disaster planning refers to the preparation 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. These plans must also be rehearsed so that when the bell ring, there will be speed and not haste in the execution. Speed is the accurate accomplishment of a plan as per schedule, while haste is doing a job quickly with errors. Plans therefore must be made when any or all of the emergencies arise. Those plans, being special in nature, must be prepared with people whose expertise in their respective field is legion together with the coordination and help of

management, security force, law enforcement agencies, and selected employees.

Planning is necessary to meet disaster and emergency conditions and it must be continuing and duly supported by management. One aspect of the plans will be to consider recovery measures to be undertaken by the organization. Being prepared for the eventuality gives better chances of protection and eventual recovery than those not prepared. Without planning, the emergency or disaster can become catastrophic. With a good, suitable plan to follow, the unusual becomes ordinary, hence, the mental preparedness for easy survival and recovery.

Understanding Disaster

 A DISASTER is a sudden, unforeseen, extraordinary occurrence. It can be considered as an EMERGENCY but an emergency may not always be a disaster.

 An EMERGENCY falls into 2 broad categories:

Disaster (Natural Crisis)

Induced Catastrophe (Man-made Crisis)

Commonalities:

 Deciding Policy

 Assessing Threat

 Identifying Resources

floods, earthquake, famine,