The Status of Philippine National Police in Preventing Street Crime at Phase 1 Bagong Silang Caloocan City

Abstract

Police response is essentially about communities and for communities. That is why we must always take account on public option in crime prevention, setting crime prevention priorities and devising appropriate response. The promotion of community safe process as regards a sense of reassurance, police and police response where frequently one factors mentioned as important, with response on the right time being liked to greater police engagement which the public expected would impact on crime and fear or crimes. The police are primarily responsible for the maintenance or public order, prevention and detection of crime industry. And also protect life and property of the people. The crime is increasing day by day with the increase of the complexity of civilization. Police response was conducting of police officers who trained to be the first line of response in any emergency situation. The researchers aim to assess the status of PNP in preventing street crime at Phase 1 Bagong Silang Caloocan City and to have clear perception regarding the street crimes on the said area. This study the descriptive method of research to determine of effectiveness of police community relationship in enhancing peace and order of Bagong Silang Phase 1 Caloocan City. To gather the needed data, the researchers made use of the following instrument: First is Questionnaire, A prompts for gathering information from respondent although they are often designed for statistical analysis of the responses, this is not always the case. Questionnaire have advantages over some other types of survey in that they are cheap, do not require as much effort from the questionnaire as verbal or telephone survey, and often have standardized answers that make it simple to compile data. Second is unstructured interview or non-directly interview is an interview in which question are not prearranged. There non-directive interviews are considered the opposite of a structured interview, which offers a set amount of standardized questions. The respondents were described as according to different demographic profiles. Majority of the respondents were from the age bracket 18 to 29 years old; 90% were male; 65% were single and 65% were high school graduate. As attested by the respondents to the status of the PNP in preventing street crimes at Bagong Silang Caloocan City in terms of: work force, equipment and course of action, most responses were regarded seriously agree. As attested by the respondents on the problems encountered by the PNP in preventing street crimes at Bagong Silang in Caloocan City, most responses were regarded as seriously agree. As attested by the respondents on the measures maybe proposed that may address the problems encountered by the PNP in preventing street crime, most responses were regarded as recommended. The findings of the study demonstrate the status of the Philippine National Police in preventing crimes at Phase 1 Bagong Silang Caloocan City. This can be used a guide for the improvement of the performance of the police officers on conducting operations on the street crime cases and to prevent these street crimes that may cause harm to the community.