Lea - 4 - Module 2
Lea - 4 - Module 2
Lea - 4 - Module 2
MODULE 2
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Module Overview:
This module is focused on police planning, you will learn in this module the elements of planning
and you will also determine the relevance of planning in police operation and the steps in planning
process.
Learning Outcomes
Lecture Notes
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➢ Police planning- is defined as the process of combining all aspects of the public safety
activity and the realistic anticipation of future problems.
Other Definitions:
Police planning is the key to administrative process. The process of combining all aspects of the
public safety activity and the realistic anticipation of the future problems, analysis of strategy and the
correlation of strategy to detail and use of rational design or pattern for all the public safety and
undertakings. Police planning also means the act of determining policies and guidelines for police
activities and operations and provides controls and safeguards for such activities and operations in the
police force.
✓ Strategic Planning.
Strategic planning is a long term and with a far reaching impact. The commonly agreed timeline for
these types of plans is more than five years duration. This is usually done at the executive levels.
An organization must first assess its mission in order to determine the more specific objectives
and goals. The mission of an organization is the fundamental, unique purpose that sets the organization
apart from others of its type and identifies the scope of its operation.
The next step after determining the organization’s mission is to establish how that mission is to
establish how that mission is to be accomplished by the organization. They formulated a set of
objectives a concrete, specific aims that management seeks to achieve for the organization, often within
a stated time period.
The third step in the strategic planning process involves the assessments of the organizations
strengths and weaknesses in comparison with those of the other organization. This assessment of
organizational resources is used to identify appropriate strategies for accomplishing organizational
missions and objectives.
Step Four: Formulating Strategy
The organization’s assessment of its resources in relation to its environment concludes with the
selection of an appropriate strategy to take advantage of existing and expected environmental
conditions.
Once the strategic plan has been developed, implementation of that plan leads to tactical and
operational considerations.
Monitoring involves establishing control mechanism so that feedback from the actual
implementation of the strategic plan can be analyzed. Through the feedback process, managers evaluate
the effectiveness of the strategy in action.
Tactical planning is short term and usually has limited impact. This is also referred to as near
term plan. The commonly agreed timeline for these types of plans is less than one year. This is usually
done at the ground levels of the organization.
Are standards operating procedures which are outlined to guide members in their routine and
field operations and in some special operations in accordance with the following procedures:
• Field Procedures- are procedures used in all situations which are outlined as a guide to officers
and men in the field.
• Headquarters Procedures- are procedures used in the headquarters such as the duties of the
administrative personnel, finance officer, desk officer, radio operator/dispatcher, jailer, matron
and other person concerned whose tour of duty are reflected in the duty manual.
• Special Operational Procedure- are procedures used in certain special operations unit as their
guides and reference.
Tactical Plans- are procedures for coping with specific situations at known locations.
III. Operational Plans- are plans for the operations of special divisions like the patrol, detective, traffic,
fire and juvenile control divisions. It is prepared to accomplish each of the primary police tasks.
IV. Management Plans- are plans in the organization relating to budget, accounting, personnel,
specifications, and the organization itself.
• Frame of reference
• Clarifying the problem
• Collecting all pertinent facts
• Analyzing the facts
• Developing alternative plans
• Selecting the most appropriate alternative
• Selling the plan
• Arranging for the executions of the plan
• Evaluating the effectiveness of the plan
Process of Planning
• A goal
• Course of action
• Implementing group
• Resources needed
Importance of Planning
Careful planning should result in the development of a blueprint describing the means to
accomplish the objectives.
Categories of Plans
➢ Time
Intermediate range- covers a time period between 1 and 5 years (conduction of PNP Police Station)
Long range- covers a time period of 5 years above (PNP Modernization Plan)
➢ Use
Single use- predetermined course of action for unique, non-recurring situations, includes program,
projects, budget (PNP Program for Deployment of Personnel to UN Mision Haiti)
Standing- predetermined course of action for repetitive or long term activities, procedure, rules and
regulations (PNP Camp defense plan)
➢ Scope of Breadth
Strategic- establish over all objectives; position the organization in terms of its environment; can be
short or long term (PNP Transformation program)
Tactical- implementation of activities and resource allocations; typically short term (Anti Criminality
Campaign Plan)
Operational- use of quotas, standards, or schedules for implementing tactical plans (Nti Kidnapping Plan)
Focus Questions
Questions:
Learning Activities
In paragraph form, write your ideas and discussed your answer in the question below:
(In google classroom, this will be posted as a written task. There will be a deadline to be set for the
submission of answer.)
Assessment
References:
Police Planning and Operations with Master Plans and Procedures. Adelene Maghinay Florendo 2011