An Assessment of the Philippine National Police’s Crime Incident Reporting System: Towards an Improved Program Application

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to assess the Philippine National Police’s Crime Incident Reporting System and the problems encountered in order to improve its program application in terms of ECONOMY, EFFICIENCY, and EFFECTIVENESS. The researcher utilized the descriptive method using a researcher-made questionnaire. This was distributed to two sets of respondents that included the crime registrars and statisticians who operate the system, and the chiefs-of-police and staff of the Directorate for Investigation and Detection Management (DIDM) who use the information extracted from the system. To determine the profile of the respondents, as well as the analysis of data, the descriptive statistical measures like frequencies, weighted mean, and percentages were used. Based on the results and findings derived from this study, the researcher concludes that in terms of ECONOMY, the annual budget allocation of the PNP for the CIRS is not sufficient. For EFFICIENCY, the biggest challenge is the weak wifi connection, that cannot accommodate the memory capacity usage of the CIRS, that delays the encoding of cases, lengthens report preparation time, and delays the gathering of information; Lastly for EFFECTIVENESS, the researcher concludes that the CIRS helped in increasing the Crime Solution Efficiency and decreasing the crime rate in the country. This means that the goal of CIRS to be an effective tool in helping decision makers and security strategists in enhancing crime solution efficiency and reducing the crime rate in the country is being achieved.