Group 1

Leader: Sta. Ana, Rey John C.

Members: Doblada, Mark Allen D.

Gonzales, Elsie D.
Villarta, Gervie Bryan C.
Cezar, Reynan L.
Castillo, Roberto
Topics
▪ Significance of Police in Social Life
 Will be reported by: Gonzales, Elsie D.
Villarta, Gervie Bryan C.

▪ Basic goals of Policing

 Will be reported by: Cezar, Reynan L.
Castillo, Roberto

▪ Roles of Police
 Will be reported by: Sta. Ana, Rey John C.
Doblada, Mark Allen D.

 Theories of Comparative Policing

 Will be reported by: Sta. Ana, Reynan L.
Significance of Police in Social Life
 Gonzales, Elsie D.

Significance of Police in Social Life

▪ The significance of the police to ensure the safe and secured life of
the civilians cannot be discounted.
1. Represents the presence of civil body politics in everyday life.
2. Conveys a sense of power or sacredness that lies at the root of
political order.
3. Represents how the political authorities maintain status quo.
4. Represents the capacity of the state to deter citizens from
committing acts that threaten the order they are believed to
symbolize.
5. Gives corporate identity to the policemen.
 Gonzales, Elsie D.

Significance of Police in Social Life

▪ Police play a significant role in social life by maintaining law and order in the
community. They are responsible for protecting the citizens and ensuring their
safety. Without police, there would be chaos and anarchy in the society. Police
officers respond to emergencies, investigate crimes, and make arrests. They also
enforce traffic laws, help in disaster management, and provide security at public
events.
▪ Moreover, police serve as a bridge between the government and the people.
They help maintain social stability by ensuring that laws and regulations are
followed. They also promote community safety through initiatives such as
community policing, where they work with citizens to address local problems and
concerns.
▪ Ideally, the role of police in the community is to preserve public safety and
uphold justice. They are meant to act as impartial arbiters of the law and protect
all citizens equally, regardless of societal factors like wealth, race, or culture.
 Villarta, Gervie Bryan C.

Significance of Police in Social Life

▪ Police force or service perform the duties assigned them by the law by
protecting the public against violence, crime and other harmful acts. Police
officers must act in accordance with the law, ensuring that it is respected and
applied in a manner consistent with their level of responsibility.
"There are four general responsibilities of police officers." They are:
1. Enforcing laws - Investigating crimes and apprehending offenders is a part of
a police officer's work. In fact, when people think about the police, that's
generally what they think of. When “Charlie” imagines being a police officer,
he is thinking about running around after criminals, which is part of enforcing
laws.
2. Preventing crime - Responding to routine incidents, like fender benders, and
going on patrol is another major part of an officer's job. This is about being in
the community so that people know that there are police officers around and
hopefully will not commit crimes.
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Significance of Police in Social Life

3. Responding to emergencies - Last month, when there was a multiple-car
pileup in the city where “Charlie” lives, many police officers showed up to help
control crowds and block off the section of the street where the problem was.
In this way, police officers respond to emergencies to help out.
4. Providing support services - In addition to all of their other duties, police
officers need to provide support services for their town. This could be running
training for members of the community, or it could be something like working
at a gun buyback program, buying guns to get them off the streets.
Many people think of police as enforcing laws, but the other three are just as
important and often form the majority of a police officer's career.
If “Charlie” wants to become a police officer, he should make sure that he'll
enjoy all aspects of the job, not just the part where he's putting someone in
handcuffs.
Basic goals of Policing
 Cezar, Reynan L.

Basic goals of Policing

▪ Police are often entrusted with various functions relative to

safety, peace, and order.
1. Enforcing laws
2. Preserving Peace
3. Preventing crimes
4. Protecting civil rights and liberties
5. Providing services
 Cezar, Reynan L.

Basic goals of Policing

▪ To enforce the law, to prevent and control crimes, to maintain peace

and order, and to ensure public safety and internal security with the
active support of the community.
▪ Goals of policing. The fundamental end of policing is to promote the
safety and security of all members of society. Safety and security are
related goals, but they nonetheless are distinct. To be effective,
agencies should strive not only to minimize actual crime and
disorder, but also to address residents’ fear of crime and to help
ensure that residents feel secure in their persons, activities,
relationships, and property with respect to both other members of
society and the police themselves.
 Castillo, Roberto

Basic goals of Policing

▪ Reducing Neighborhood Crime One of the top goals of law enforcement is

reducing the amount of crime in their service area. To reduce crime, police
officers regularly patrol, follow up on tips and hold driver checkpoints. Police
officers may focus on neighborhoods with higher rates of crime in order to meet
their goal of overall crime reduction.
– They also respond to calls from concerned citizens who may be the victims of crime or have
witnessed a crime. Studies have found that these types of service calls account for nearly 40
percent of the calls that come into a police station. Twenty percent of those calls are not
related to crime, while about 17 percent are. Enforcing Law and Order Whether it’s speeding
through a red light, jaywalking or stealing from a store, people constantly break laws.
– One of the main goals of law enforcement is to enforce laws to maintain order and safety in
the community. That includes enforcing non-criminal conduct and preserve the peace
through such things as crowd control, parking enforcement and pedestrian traffic. About 10
percent to 16 percent of the calls police stations receive are related to law enforcement.

▪ .
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Basic goals of Policing

▪ Responding Quickly When Needed One of the primary police officer goals
is to respond quickly to a call, crime scene or emergency, the average
response time to a 911 call is about 18 minutes. This can be more or less,
depending on where the caller lives in relation to the police department,
the type of call, weather and road conditions, and other variables. One of
the goals of policing is finding ways to improve response time, and newer
technologies can help.
– Individualized Department Goals Individual police departments set their own internal
policy officer goals for their department. These can vary depending on crime levels in
the community, the location of the police department and the size of the department.
For example, the police department in the small city of Pinole, Calif., has stated police
officer goals that include preventing and controlling crime, helping people in physical
danger, protecting constitutional guarantees and facilitating the movement of people
and vehicles. It also aims to create a feeling of security in the community and resolve
conflict.
Roles of Police
 Doblada, Mark Allen D.

Roles of Police

▪ The police are an entity created by law and funded by the state to
ensure social order and enforce the law.
– The primary role of police is to address all sorts of problems relative to social
order and law enforcement, where solutions may or may not require the use
of force at the point of their occurrence.

▪ “Policing is an exercise in symbolic demarking of what is immoral,

wrong, and outside the boundaries of acceptable conduct. It
represents the state, morality, and standards of civility and
decency by which we judge ourselves.” – Peter K. Manning(1997)
 Doblada, Mark Allen D.

Roles of Police

▪ The police are expected to fulfill certain roles like the following:
1. A watchman
2. A law enforcer
3. A service provider
 Doblada, Mark Allen D.

Roles of Police

▪ Law Enforcement - The Governments gave the police a power

to make individuals comply with the law.
(their primary responsibility is to protect lives and property.)
▪ Maintain peace and order - Patrolling assigned areas and
monitor activities to protect people/property
o In towns and cities, police officers will patrol streets or highway by car.
provide traffic assistance, respond to emergencies and calls for help,
▪ Prevents and investigates crimes and bring offenders to
justice.
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Roles of Police

Checkpoints – police set checkpoints to deter if you have the proper

needs to be driving and if you are under the influence while driving

•Deter crimes and assure community through high-visibility policing

•Investigate crimes and apprehend suspected law violators

•Observe and respond to various situations or emergencies

•Follow rules, guidelines and protocols

•Conduct initial investigations

 Sta. Ana, Rey John C.

Roles of Police

•Gather evidence and ensure successful prosecutions

•Produce internal reports and provide feedback on case status

•Deal with case paperwork and administrative procedures

•Foster good public relationships and liaise with community groups or

individuals

•Coordinate operations with other emergency services

•Attend and provide evidence in court

 Sta. Ana, Rey John C.

Roles of Police

▪ Disaster response and management: They assist in disaster response

and management efforts, providing aid, coordinating rescue
operations, and maintaining public order during emergencies.
▪ crowd control: During public events, protests, and gatherings, the
police manage crowds to prevent disorder, maintain public safety,
and protect individuals' rights.
▪ Traffic regulation: They enforce traffic laws and regulations to ensure
smooth and safe flow of vehicles and pedestrians.
▪ VIP security: They provide protection to high-ranking government
officials, foreign dignitaries, and important personalities to ensure
their safety.
 Sta. Ana, Rey John C.

Theories of Comparative Policing

▪ Theories of comparative policing are largely comparative in nature, it seeks

to explain why policing systems differ widely in their organization, the
powers and authority granted them, the roles and tasks they are entrusted
with, the occupational cultures that characterized their work, their
interactions with civic society and the state, the quality and effectiveness of
their work.
▪ Comparative Models in Policing - science and art of investigating &
comparing the police system of nations
– process of outlining the similarities and differences of one police system to
another in order to discover insights in the field of international policing
– covers the study of police organizations, trainings & methods of policing of
various nations
 Cezar, Reynan L.

Theories of Comparative Policing

▪ THEORIES OF COMPARATIVE POLICING

1. Alertness to Crime Theory – The people’s alertness to crime is
heightened as the society develops or progresses. As a result, more
crimes are reported which increases the demand for the police to
become more effective at solving crime problems.

-It relates to “proactive policing” which refers to all policing

strategies with the goal of crime prevention or reduction that are
not reactive primarily on uncovering ongoing crime or on
investigating or responding to crimes once they occurred.
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Theories of Comparative Policing

2. Economic or Migration Theory – This theory supposes that labor

markets and economies are driven by trade and migration. Migrants
move from societies where labor is abundant and wages are low, to
societies where labor is scarce, and wages are high. As a result, crime is
everywhere, most especially in over-populated urban areas.
The economic theory of criminal behavior is an application of the
neoclassical theory of demand. Formalized by Nobel Laureate Gary
Becker in 1968, it states that potential criminals are economically
rational and respond significantly to the deterring incentives by the
criminal justice system. They compare the gain from committing a
crime with the expected cost, including the risk of punishment.
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Theories of Comparative Policing

3. Opportunity Theory – It seeks to explain the occurrence of crime

rather than simply the existence of criminal dispositions. Crime
opportunity theory espouses that offenders make rational choices, thus
choose targets that offer high reward with little effort and risk. Along
with higher standards of living, victims become more careless of their
belongings, hence opportunities for committing crime multiply.
4. Demographic Theory – Is based on the belief that with the increase in
the childbirth rate, so does the emergence of delinquent subcultures as
a result of adolescent identity crisis.
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Theories of Comparative Policing

5. Deprivation Theory – Espouses that along with progress comes rising

expectations. Individuals at the bottom of the social class or hierarchy
develop unrealistic expectations, while those at the top do not see
themselves rising fast enough.
In the deprivation theory, individuals who are deprived of money,
justice, status or privilege, join social movements to express the
grievances.
However, it’s also important to look at relative deprivation theory
where and individual feels deprived by comparing what others have.
Absolute deprivation refers to the inability to access the basic
necessities in life such as food, shelter and clothing.
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Theories of Comparative Policing

6. Modernization Theory - It see the problem as society becoming too

complex.
This theory concludes that crime patterns are predictable and why
criminal behavior in developed countries is characterized by an increase
in property crime and a relative decrease in violent crime not
associated with property crime.
The general rise in the crime rate and its concentration in the urban
areas are due to the greater availability of goods, the increased
feasibility of crime commission, and the increased feeling of relative
deprivation because of a greater gap between the rich and the poor/
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Theories of Comparative Policing

7. Theory of Anomie and Synnomie – Anomie suggest that progressive

lifestyles and norms result in the disintegration of older norms that once
held people together . Synnomie refers to social cohesion on values.
The idea of anomie means the lack of normal ethical or social standards.
This concept first emerged in 1893, with French sociologist Emile
Durkheim. His theory was based upon the idea that the lack of rules and
clarity resulted in psychological status or worthlessness, frustration, lack
of purpose.
Anomie comes from the Greek anomos meaning "lawless”. Anomie
means a lack of moral standards, or a sense of lawlessness, or sometimes
the anxiety that comes from being in a lawless place.
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Reporters:

Sta. Ana, Rey John C. Castillo, Roberto Doblada, Mark Allen D.

Villarta, Gervie Bryan C. Gonzales, Elsie D. Cezar, Reynan L.

Thank you for listening!

Group 1