Sequence of Presentation

LOI 22/09 “BAYANIHAN” (Barangay

Peacekeeping Operations)
Memorandum Circular No. 2011-103,
“Support and Assistance of the Local Government
Units in the Implementation and Sustained
Operations of the National Tourist Oriented
Police for Community Order and Protection
Project”
Improving Police-Community Relations
Through Community Policing
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 General Objective

To establish an effective
community policing machinery
through community partnership
 LOI 22/09 “BAYANIHAN” (Barangay Peacekeeping Operations)

 BAYANIHAN is envisioned as a “catch-all” community policing strategy adapting

the concept of Barangay Peacekeeping Operations (BPO);
 BPO mandates the organization of Barangay Peacekeeping Action Teams (BPATs) - a
conglomeration of various community sectoral groups which serve as “force multipliers”;
 BPATs shall function solely for community-based activities, info campaign in
support to PNP’s anti-criminality effort, crime prevention and on-the-spot conflict
resolution, employing its five (5) components, namely;
- Law Enforcement/Community Policing
- People’s Organization (United Front)
- Disaster Relief, Rescue, Rehabilitation Component
- Environmental Protection
- Barangay Restorative Justice System/Conflict Resolution
 COMPONENTS OF BPAT

.
1 LAW ENFORCEMENT/COMMUNITY POLICING:
- includes BTBs/BPSO, Traffic Enforcers, security guards and other sectors aligned
with law enforcement functions.
- activities include but not limited to Patrol /Ronda, Response to Complaints or
Incidents, Preservation of Crime Scene, Evidence Gathering, Traffic Direction,
Enforcement of Barangay Laws and Ordinances, Monitoring of Activities of Organized
Crime Groups and of all Forms of Terrorism

2. COMMUNITY/PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION (United Front)

- Organization and Mobilization of NGOs to propagate the Government’s Peace and
Order Initiatives
- Organization of groups and allies within the various sectors of the community
(homeowners, student’s sector, tricycle/jeepney drivers, etc..)
 COMPONENTS OF BPAT
3. DISASTER MITIGATION, RELIEF & CONTROL :
- covers activities and measures relating to prevention, mitigation, preparedness,
emergency response, and recovery.
- includes Fire Brigade volunteers, Disaster Rescue volunteers

4. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
- Initiates and performs programs/activities relating to environmental concern such
as community cleaning program, coastal cleaning, reforestation, waste management
activity, and the like. Includes Bantay Dagat, Forest Protection volunteers, River
Warriors, etc..

5. BARANGAY JUSTICE SYSTEM/CONFLICT RESOLUTION

- Settlement of disputes is within the confines of BPATs own barangay.
- Recognition of practice and belief among the barangay residents.
- Mutual concession to obtain a peaceful resolution of the disputes without formal
adjudication thereof.
 BPAT DAILY ACTIVITIES
 Roll Call Training
 Maintenance of uniform and individual equipment
 Keeping of a Case Notebook and Journal
 Establishment of close working relationship with residents
 Identifying crime-prone areas and problem personalities
 Reporting actions taken
 Responding to crime
 Lateral coordination with technical people
 Record check of suspects
 Arrest of suspects
 Case documentation
 Appearance as Prosecution Witness
 Monitor movements or incursions of CTs
 Establishment of communication link with police
 Other Developments
 Issuance of DILG Memo Circular Nr. 2009-145 dated September 25, 2009,
mandating the support of the LCEs to the BPO/BPAT Program.
 MOA signing between PNP and the League of Provinces of the Philippines
(LPP) that focuses on strengthening partnership/collaboration between the PNP
and LPP for the effective implementation of BPO/BPAT Program.
 BPO/BPAT launchings conducted in various PROs nationwide.
 Uploading of the BPO/BPAT manual at the PNP website (www.pnp.gov.ph).
 Memorandum Circular No. 2011-103, “Support and
Assistance of the Local Government Units in the Implementation
and Sustained Operations of the National Tourist Oriented Police
for Community Order and Protection Project”

All Provincial Governors, City Mayors, Municipal

Mayors, DILG regional Directors and ARMM Regional
GovernorsLocal Chief Executive are hereby encouraged
to support, collaborate and assist the DOT and the PNP by
providing available resources in the effective
implementation and sustained operation of the NTOPCOP
project effective July 13, 2011.
Improving Police-Community
Relations Through Community
Policing
 Goal of This Presentation

TO HELP PARTICIPANTS
UNDERSTAND HOW RELATIONS
BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND
LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN BE
STRENGTHENED THROUGH
COMMUNITY POLICING STRATEGIES
 Objectives

• DEFINE COMMUNITY POLICING AND ITS PRINCIPLES;

• DESCRIBE THE BENEFITS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF
CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT;
• IDENTIFY STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE
COMMUNICATION;
• IDENTIFY THE SIX FACTORS FOR IMPROVING POLICE
COMMUNITY RELATIONS; AND
• DESCRIBE THE BENEFITS OF NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH.
 Crime Prevention As a Bridge

CRIME PREVENTION EFFORTS REDUCE

POLARIZATION THAT SOMETIMES EXISTS
BETWEEN POLICE AND CITIZENS.

COMMUNITY POLICING, NEIGHBORHOOD

WATCH, ORANGE HAT PATROLS, WEED AND
SEED, AND MCGRUFF PROGRAMS BUILD A
BRIDGE THAT ENABLES RESIDENTS AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT TO COMMUNICATE,
COLLABORATE, AND WORK TOGETHER TO
BUILD SAFER, MORE CARING COMMUNITIES.
 The Benefits of Improved Police-Community
Relations

IMPROVED RELATIONS ALLOW POLICE OFFICERS TO

• POLICE MORE EFFECTIVELY

• FIND THEIR JOBS SAFER AND EASIER TO DO
• FACE LESS LITIGATION AND GAIN LONGER CAREERS
• BE TREATED WITH GREATER RESPECT
• HAVE BETTER MORALE
 The Benefits of Improved Police-
Community Relations (continued)

IMPROVED RELATIONS ALLOW COMMUNITY RESIDENTS TO

• HAVE MORE TRUST AND LESS FEAR OF POLICE

• HAVE A SAFER COMMUNITY
• HAVE LESS TENSION AND CONFLICT
• GAIN GREATER COOPERATION FROM POLICE
• GAIN INCREASED SAFETY FOR CHILDREN AND SENIORS
• GAIN QUICKER RESOLUTION TO CRIME
 A Bit of History

Community Policing
 SIR ROBERT PEEL
CONSIDERED A “FATHER” OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

ARE HIS PRINCIPLES OF

POLICING STILL APPLICABLE
TODAY?

ABSOLUTELY!
 Sir Robert Peel’s
Nine Principles of Policing

1. THE BASIC MISSION OF THE POLICE IS TO

PREVENT CRIME AND DISORDER.
2. THE ABILITY OF THE POLICE TO PERFORM
THEIR DUTIES IS DEPENDENT UPON PUBLIC
APPROVAL OF POLICE ACTIONS.
3. POLICE MUST SECURE THE WILLING
COOPERATION OF THE PUBLIC.
4. THE DEGREE OF COOPERATION OF THE
PUBLIC THAT CAN BE SECURED DIMINISHES
PROPORTIONALLY TO THE NECESSITY OF
THE USE OF FORCE.
 Sir Robert Peel’s
Nine Principles of Policing (continued)

5. POLICE SEEK AND PRESERVE PUBLIC

FAVOR.
6. POLICE USE PHYSICAL FORCE TO THE
EXTENT NECESSARY.
7. POLICE AT ALL TIMES SHOULD
MAINTAIN A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
PUBLIC.
8. POLICE SHOULD ALWAYS DIRECT THEIR
ACTIONS STRICTLY TOWARD THEIR
FUNCTIONS.
 Community Policing

“Community policing is a philosophy that

promotes and supports organizational
strategies to address the causes of crime, to
reduce the fear of crime and social disorder
through problem-solving tactics and
community-police partnerships.”
Source: Community Oriented Policing Services Office
 The Eight “P”s of Community Policing

A PHILOSOPHY of full service,

PERSONALIZED
POLICING, where the same officer
PATROLS and works in the same area on a
PERMANENT basis, from a decentralized
PLACE, working in
PARTNERSHIP with citizens to identify and solve
PROBLEMS
 Community Policing

THE COMMUNITY-POLICING PHILOSOPHY

RESTS ON THE BELIEF THAT LAW-ABIDING
CITIZENS IN THE COMMUNITY HAVE A
RESPONSIBILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
POLICE PROCESS. IT ALSO RESTS ON THE
BELIEF THAT SOLUTIONS TO TODAY’S
CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY PROBLEMS
DEMAND FREEING BOTH COMMUNITY
 Normative Sponsorship Theory
• MOST PEOPLE ARE OF GOOD • The more the various
WILL. groups share common
values, beliefs, and
They will cooperate goals, the more likely it
with others to facilitate is that they will agree on
the building of common goals.
consensus.

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 Critical Social Theory

• Enlightenment
Give information

Empowerment
Take action to improve
conditions
Emancipation
People can achieve
through social action

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 Community Relationship Provide

• WORTH IN SOCIAL VALUE

• A MORE INFORMED CITIZENRY
• EXAMPLE TO YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS

ADDED VALUE
• OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT WHILE
WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT
• LEARNING ABOUT CITIZENS’ CONCERNS
How Do People View
the Police?
 VOLUNTEERS IN POLICE SERVICE
Volunteers in Police Website
Service (VIPS) www.policevolunteers.org
Provides support for
resource-constrained
police departments by
incorporating civilian
volunteers so that law
enforcement
professionals have more
time for frontline duty
 Volunteers in Police Service (continued)

• WHY THEY ARE NEEDED

• EASE DEMANDS ON LAW ENFORCEMENT

• ENCOURAGE A MORE INFORMED CITIZENRY
• PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE TO YOUNG PEOPLE
• IMPROVE COOPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THEIR COMMUNITY
 Considerations of Community Interaction

• HOW COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS CAN BE USED WITHIN

THEIR COMMUNITY

- LEGAL ISSUES
- SAFETY ISSUES
- EXPERTISE ISSUES
 Community/Police Needs and Support

• FILLING NEEDS WITH VOLUNTEERS

• COORDINATING POSITION
• PRE RECRUITMENT ACTION REQUIRED
• ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE
(IACP)
• MATCH VOLUNTEERS TO THE ORGANIZATION’S STRATEGIC PLAN
• POSSIBLE VOLUNTEER POSITIONS (ADAPT TO LOCAL NEEDS)
 Recruiting and Marketing

• RECRUITMENT STRATEGY

• WHO IS YOUR TARGET?

• DEVELOP A PLAN
• RECOGNIZE IMPORTANT EXISTING NETWORKS AND TAP INTO

CHURCHES, PTAS, COMMUNITY COUNCILS,

KIWANIS, ROTARIANS, ETC.
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
YOUTH, COURTS, CITIZENS’ POLICE
ACADEMIES
 Recruiting and Marketing (continued)

• DEVELOP ORGANIZATIONAL MARKETING

MATERIALS

• WEBSITES
• BROCHURES
• FLIERS/HANDOUTS/FACT SHEETS
• STORE WINDOW POSTERS
• ADS IN LOCAL PAPERS
• CABLE CHANNEL ACCESS
 Crime in Your
Neighborhood
• A lack of community involvement may
lead to some of the most serious and
perplexing problems your community
faces.
 Why is Community Involvement
Important?

• WHEN MEMBERS OF A COMMUNITY ARE

INVOLVED WITH EACH OTHER, THEY KNOW
• THEIR NEIGHBORS
• THE DAILY “GOINGS-ON” IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD
• WHEN SOMETHING IS WRONG
ONE GREAT WAY TO PERPETUATE
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IS
THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD
WATCH PROGRAM.
 What is the Neighborhood
Watch Program?
• NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1970 TO BRING
RESIDENTS TOGETHER TO INTERACT AND BECOME THE
GUARDIANS FOR THE POLICE IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
 Neighborhood Watch

• CRIME PREVENTION GROUP ORGANIZED AROUND A

BLOCK, DEFINED NEIGHBORHOOD, OR BUSINESS
DISTRICT
• SERVES AS “EYES AND EARS” FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
• HELPS ESTABLISH OR RECLAIM INFORMAL CONTROL
OF AN AREA BY OBSERVATION, VISIBILITY, AND
INCREASED SOCIAL INTERACTION
• DONATES TIME AND RESOURCES
• USUALLY HAS NO FORMAL BUDGET OR FUNDING
SOURCE
• SUCCESS RESULTS IN REDUCTION IN CRIME AND
IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE FOR NEIGHBORHOOD
RESIDENTS
 The Benefits of Neighborhood Watch

• UNITES THE COMMUNITY AND INCREASES

NEIGHBORHOOD COHESION
• REDUCES FEAR OF CRIME IN THE COMMUNITY
• IMPROVES CRIME REPORTING BY CITIZENS
• INCREASES SURVEILLANCE IN THE
COMMUNITY
• PREVENTS AND REDUCES CRIME
• ENHANCES HOMELAND SECURITY
 The Benefits of Neighborhood Watch
(continued)

STUDIES SHOW THAT NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH

IS EFFECTIVE BECAUSE

• IT UNITES NEIGHBORS AROUND A COMMON

GOAL—SAFETY AND SECURITY.
• IT PROVIDES ALL MEMBERS BASIC SKILLS ON
PREVENTING CRIME AND REPORTING SUSPICIOUS
ACTIVITIES OR CRIMES.
• IT BUILDS A BASE FOR CORRECTING
NEIGHBORHOOD PROBLEMS.
• IT WORKS WELL WITH OTHER CIVIC ACTIVITIES.
 Additional Citizen
Actions

• Discuss your community’s overall security,

including lighting, and contact neighbors or the proper
authorities to request necessary improvements.

• Contact your local law enforcement agency and

work with it to discuss basic community modifications
that may overcome current problems.
How Can Citizens Be More Aware?

• BE INFORMED
• BE ALERT
• BE PREPARED
 In Conclusion
• COMMUNITY POLICING IS THE
RESPONSIBILITY OF BOTH LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. BOTH HAVE
IMPORTANT ROLES IN COMMUNITY POLICING.

• THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO INVOLVE THE

COMMUNITY IN CRIME-REDUCTION AND
PROBLEM SOLVING, INCLUDING COMMUNITY
MEETINGS.

• POLICE AND LOCAL CITIZENS ARE ALL

MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
QUESTIONS
Thank you
And
good day
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