The Effectiveness of Police Patrol Operations and its Impact to the Constituents of the Second District in the Province of Oriental Mindoro

Authors

  • Christian Atienza Marquez

Keywords:

police officers, patrol supervisors, patrol operations, effectiveness, impact, PNP

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the level of effectiveness of police patrol operations and the extent of its impact on the constituents in the second district, province of Oriental Mindoro. A total of seven (7) patrol supervisors, sixty (60) police patrollers, and one hundred sixty (160) barangay captains were used as the significant respondents of this study. A mixed-method was employed to collect data on the level of effectiveness of police patrol operations and the extent of its impact to the constituents which were interpreted through the use of weighted mean, percentage, and rank while Pearson’s r was used to determine the relationship between the level of effectiveness of police patrol operations and the extent of impact to the constituents of Oriental Mindoro. The researcher used descriptive-correlational methods of research to describe and compare the basic features of the data gathered. The respondents were drawn from the seven (7) municipalities of the second district in the province of Oriental Mindoro using the purposive sampling technique. The police patrol operations in the municipalities of the second district in the Province of Oriental Mindoro are highly effective while the extent of its impact on the constituents of the different municipalities great. No relationship exists between the level of effectiveness of police patrol operations and the extent of its impact on the constituents of Oriental Mindoro.

Published

2019-08-18