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POLICE COMMUNICATION
SYSTEM
1. External factors
a. trust and confidence of the people
b. participation of the public in patrol activities
c. support of the barangay officials
2. Internal factors
a. higher pay
b. endorsement by higher authorities
B. Factors influencing decision making at an operational
level - Operational level decision makers judgments are
governed by the same kinds of influences that affect decisions
of higher level administrators. But, because officers operate
within a much smaller political sphere, they find their
relationships with the more limited community potentially
more intense. The reciprocal impact of both officer and
community becomes clearer. It is easier to bargain within
these more intimate relationships.
3. Environmental factors
a. personal values
b. pressure of police supervisors and peers
c. personal perception of what alternatives to assess are
available
CONCEPT OF ORGANIZATION-
Basically, organization consists of arranging personnel, and
functions in a systematic manner designed to accommodate
stated goals and objectives in the most efficient manner possible.
A poorly organized police department cannot function effectively
even with the best management. Similarly, an organized police
agency will not operate with maximum efficiency if it is not well
managed.
REQUIREMENTS:
The use of dogs can work out fine, but if the public
thinks that they are a danger to the community as well as to the
criminal, they will not last. A well planned public relations
campaign must be conducted to show the general public that the
police dog is gentle except when commanded by his master, and
that his use will be restricted to the more serious offenses.
Uses of dogs or K-9s in police operations
G. MOTORCYCLE PATROL
Although the use of motorcycle has lost ground to the
use of patrol cars in recent years, their need in congested traffic
will insure their continued use as a form of police patrol. The
two-wheel motorcycle is quite adaptable to traffic enforcement,
parades and escort duty. It has disadvantages of being used only
in fair weather, of causing a greater number of accidents that are
usually quite serious, and in the long run costing the department
almost as much as a patrol vehicle despite the apparent low rate
cost.
The chance of a motorcycle rider being injured is nine times
as great as that of the driver of an automobile. He is also four times
likely to be killed than police officer riding in an automobile.
The three-wheel motorcycle is used almost exclusively in
the enforcement of parking. It has the disadvantage of not providing
the rider with protection against the weather.
Before WW11, the walking beat or foot patrol was the only
type used by our local police forces for crime prevention activities.
It was a very successful method because of strict supervision
employed- close personal supervision; supervision by
instrumentation; that resulted in a highly and satisfactory visible
police presence.
1. Administrative Aspect
a. Staff supervisor an inspector in charge of shift or platoon
b. Disposition officer supervising deskman
c. Deskman patrol officer assigned to receive phone calls
from public and reports from mobile patrol crews.
d. Dispatcher patrol officer in charge of the radio control
room that are dispatching mobile patrol crew to scene of
assignments, transmitting, and receiving, recording radio
message.
2. Operational Aspect
a. Field supervisor one who supervise mobile crew in the
field, for discipline and performance.
b. Crew normally two men complement of uniformed patrol
officers in the radio car, one acting as the driver and the
other as the recorder.
Team Policing
Team Policing represents an attempt to integrate the police
and community interests into a working relationship so as to produce
the desired objective of peace keeping in the community. Team
policing is said to have originated in Aberdeen Scotland, shortly after
WW11. The project was introduced by the Aberdeen Police out of
boredom, it appearing that their police officers who, were assigned
alone to patrol quiet streets during the night were, getting bored and
experiencing low morale. To remedy the situation, it allocated teams
of five to ten men on foot and in patrol cars to cover the City of
Aberdeen. The patrols were distributed according to the
concentration of crimes and citizens calls for police service, with the
teams moving to different sections of the city as the workload
demanded. Thus, the monotony and loneliness were relieved.
Whatever was the motivation for its introduction in police
performance the system was abandoned in 1963 in the city of its
origin. Nevertheless, its influence had already spread an adopted by
no less than 70 police agencies in the United States. The Syracuse
Police Department in New York was the first American City to try
team policing. This was followed by the Tucson Arizona also in 1963.
Characteristics of Team Policing
a. Geographic stability of the patrol force.
b. Maximum interaction between team members
c. Maximum communication between team members and community
residents
Language
while other animals use limited range of sounds or signals to
communicate, humans have developed complex systems of language that are
used to ensure survival; express ideas and emotions; tell stories and
remember the past; negotiate with one another. Oral language is a feature of
every human society or culture.
Symbols and Alphabets
Most languages also have a written form. The oldest
records of written language are about 5000 years old. However,
written communication began much earlier in the form of
drawings or marks made to indicate meaningful information about
the nature world. The earliest artificially created visual images
that have been discovered to date are paintings of bears,
mammoths, wooly winos, and other Ice Age animals on cave walls
near Avignon, France.
1880 The Chicago Police Department installed the first Police Call
Box on a city street. Only officers and reputable citizens were
given keys to the booth. Before this time a signal box was used that
would signal the emergency without voice communications. Detroit
made such installations in 1884 and Indianapolis in 1895.
1883 The Detroit, Michigan Police Department installed one
police telephone. This was significant when one considers the fact
that there were only seven telephones in the whole city at that
time. In 1889 the department established a new division to
handle communications. It was called the Police Signal Bureau.
A code wheel was installed in the box so that when the beat man
called in for his time check, it would register at headquarters with
the proper signal for that call box. This insured that the beat
officer was in fact at the location from which he claimed to be
calling.
1916 The New York Harbor Police installed spark transmitters
so they could communicate with their police boats while they
were patrolling the harbor. This also enabled them to
communicate with other boats and ships in the harbor.
By 1927 the prohibition era had seen the development of big time
crime and the gangsters were making wide use of automobiles as
get-away cars. The police were under great pressure to control
the situation, but always arrived at the scene too late.
Commissioner Rutledge then persuaded Robert L. Batts, a young
radio technician and student at Purdue University, to come to
Detroit and work on a radio receiver that would operate in a
police car. It was through this effort that the first workable police
radio setup was developed.
1929 In September of 1929, the Cleveland Police Department went
on the air with a few cars, and in December of the same year,
Indianapolis became the third police department in the world to set up
a workable police radio system.
1930 The Michigan State Police became the first state police
organization to go on the air in October of 1930. It proved very
effective in apprehending bank robbers and other gangsters.
1931 The first police motorcycle was equipped with a radio by the
Indianapolis Police Department in September, 1931.
Medium
Communication must be conveyed through some channel
or medium. Media for communication may be our sight, hearing,
taste touch, or smell. Some other media are television, telephone,
paper and pencil, and radio. The importance of the choice of the
medium should not be minimized. All of us are aware of the
difference between a message that our superior delivers
personally and the one that is sent through a secretary or by a
memo. The medium, like the chosen symbol, has an effect on the
meaning that the listener eventually attaches to the message in
the process of decoding.
Reception
For the receiver, the reception of the message is
analogous to the senders transmission. The stimuli, the verbal
and nonverbal symbols, reach the senses of the receiver and are
conveyed to the brain for interpretation.
Decoding
The process of interpretation occurs when the individual
who has received the stimuli develops some meaning for the
verbal and nonverbal symbols and decodes the stimuli. For the
receiver, then, decoding is analogous to the process of encoding
for the sender. These symbols are translated into some concept
or experience of the receiver. Whether this receiver is familiar
with the symbols, or whether interference such as any physical
noise or physiological problem occurs. ( Swanson Police
administration)
Systems of Communication
(B) Brevity. This means using few words. Due to the expanding
volume of radio traffic, it is essential that there be no unnecessary
or repetitious words in the transmission. The use of police code
can help maintain brevity.
Not speaking too fast, or slovenly. Talk with the mouth open.
Use the phonetic alphabet when the word is likely to cause
trouble. Unusual surnames should be spelled phonetically.
Use similes. This can be done by saying that something is like
something else. i.e. wood as in firewood; green like grass.