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This document outlines the duties and responsibilities of patrol officers and patrol supervisors, as well as procedures for spot checks, protecting crime scenes, and conducting pat-down searches. Specifically: 1) Patrol officers are responsible for patrolling areas, responding to calls, preventing crimes and dispersing unlawful assemblies. 2) Patrol supervisors duties include creating patrol plans, inspecting officers, briefing officers prior to patrols, and collecting reports. 3) Spot checks can involve limited questioning about identity but suspects are not required to answer. Arrests cannot be made solely due to refusal to answer. 4) When protecting crime scenes, officers should secure the area, take photos, avoid touching evidence, and

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Romblon State University Institute of Criminal Justice Education

This document outlines the duties and responsibilities of patrol officers and patrol supervisors, as well as procedures for spot checks, protecting crime scenes, and conducting pat-down searches. Specifically: 1) Patrol officers are responsible for patrolling areas, responding to calls, preventing crimes and dispersing unlawful assemblies. 2) Patrol supervisors duties include creating patrol plans, inspecting officers, briefing officers prior to patrols, and collecting reports. 3) Spot checks can involve limited questioning about identity but suspects are not required to answer. Arrests cannot be made solely due to refusal to answer. 4) When protecting crime scenes, officers should secure the area, take photos, avoid touching evidence, and

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ROMBLON STATE UNIVERSITY

Institute of Criminal Justice Education


Odiongan, Romblon

Edreck Tamboong

3rd Yr.Block 4

1. What are the duties and responsibilities of Patrol Officer?

Duties and Responsibilities of Patrol Officers

1. Patrolling assigned beats, observing and checking suspicious people,


structures/building, compounds and vehicles;
2. Responding to calls, entertaining complaints; initiating the investigation and
protection of the scene and minimizing the after effects of accident, fires and
other catastrophes;
3. Inquiring at public gatherings, preventing disorders and dispersing unlawful
assemblies;
4. Preventing crimes and arresting wrongdoers sighted, assuring the public
that peace is preserved;
5. Inspecting and/or conducting surveillance in various places of business
establishments and other installation and removal of hazards of public safety;
6. Assisting traffic personnel of responsible agencies/unit in facilitating the
flow of traffic at busy intersections/roads within AOR;
7. Conducting home visitations, ugnayans/dialogue and organizing CVOs
during weekends;
8. Reporting occurrences and conditions which relate to crime, public peace
and order and public safety.
9. Enforcing city/municipal ordinances on liquor establishments and night
clubs, cabarets and all houses of ill-refute; and
10. Checking suspicious vehicles (private,public, or commercial/delivery
vehicles along the highways in the course of their patrol.

2. What are the duties of Patrol Supervisors?

1. Make a patrol plan. In any operation, careful planning is a must in order to


avoid unnecessary waste of time, effort and resources;

1. Area coverage safe haven, ambush areas and crime prone areas
2. Organizational Details of Personnel;
3. Duration
4. Stand-by Points; and
5. Route Plan

2. Designate District and Station Patrol Supervisors

3. Inspect the members of the patrol on the completeness of the uniforms and
the availability and operational condition of personnel and equipment
ROMBLON STATE UNIVERSITY
Institute of Criminal Justice Education
Odiongan, Romblon

4. Conduct briefing prior to dispatch on the priority of activities to be


undertaken during the patrol as situation demands and to remind them on the
strict observance of the PNP Rules of Engagement before the dispatch.
Debriefing shall likewise be conducted after the patrol of. The helps the
Commander address immediate problem in his area.
5. Render hourly report of location and situation thru radio/telephone to
PCPs/Station Headquarters TOC
6. Render after patrol report duly signed by detailed personnel. PCP
Commanders shall collate same and submit significant details to the Station
patrol Supervisor, who in turn shall submit the more significant items in the
PCP reposts to the Provincial/District patrol Supervisor.

7. Strictly observe “Buddy System” during the patrol operations.

3. What are the procedures and guidelines for Spot Checks/Accosting?

Procedures and Guidelines for Spot Checks/Accosting- the following


guidelines shall be followed when making a authorized spot check/accosting

1. When approaching the individual, the officer shall clearly identify himself as
a law enforcement officer, if not in uniform, by announcing his identity and
displaying official identification card and /or badge.
2. Officers shall be courteous at all times but maintain caution and vigilance
for suspicious movements to retrieve weapons, conceal or discard
contraband, or other suspicious actions.
3. Before approaching more than one individual, officers should determine
whether the circumstances warrant a request for assistance and whether the
spot check/accosting can and should be delayed until such assistance arrives.
4. Officers shall confine their questions to those concerning the suspect’s
identity place or residence, and other inquiries necessary to resolve the
officer’s suspicious. However, in no instance shall an officer hold a suspect
longer than is reasonably necessary to make these limited inquiries and
resolve suspicious.
5. Officers are not required to give suspects Miranda warnings unless the
person is placed under arrest.
6. Suspects are not required, nor can they be compelled, to answer any
questions posed during spot checks/accosting. Failure to respond to an
officer’s inquiries is not, in and of itself, sufficient grounds to make an arrests
although it may provide sufficient justification for additional observation and
investigation.

4. Explain how to protect and preserve the crime scene?

Arrive as soon as possible, record time of arrival, weather condition and


situation of the crime scene and if possible take photographs of the scene and
its immediate vicinity;
ROMBLON STATE UNIVERSITY
Institute of Criminal Justice Education
Odiongan, Romblon

Establish the police lines and exclude unauthorized persons from the scene
Avoid touching or stepping on anything that may represent evidence.
Look and protect adjacent areas to the scene where firearms, footprints,
dropped articles and bloodstains could be found
Look for the presence of bloodstains and other body fluid. They are easily
ignored and obliterated.
Turnover all initial information and evidences gathered to the responding
investigation unit/elements

5. What are grounds for body frisk/pat-down searches?

A law enforcement officer has the right to perform a pat-down search if,
the individuals has been legitimately stopped with reasonable suspicion and
when the officer has reason to believe that the individual possesses weapons
on his or her person and poses a threat to the officer’s or another person’s
safety when Pat down search is justified:

1. The type of crime suspected-particularly crimes of violence where the use


of threat of deadly weapons is involved.
2. Where more than one suspect must be handled by a single officer.
3. The time of the day and the location or where the pat down search takes
place.
4. Prior knowledge of the suspect’s use of force and/or propensity to carry
deadly weapons.
5. The appearance and demeanor of the suspect
6. Visual indications suggesting that the suspect is carrying a firearm or other
deadly weapon.
7. Whenever possible, pat-down searches should be performed by officers of
the same sex.

Officer should take note that these criteria/factors are not all inclusive; there
are others that could or should be considered. The existence of more than
one of these criteria/factors may be required in order to justify a pat-down
search, the more, the better.

Procedure for Pat-Down Search- When reasonable suspicion/probable cause


justifies a pat down search should be performed to protect the safety of
officers and others, and may never be used as pretext fro shaking down
individuals or groups of individuals to obtain evidence of for other purposes.
Pat down searches should be conducted in the following manner.

1. Whenever possible, pat-down searches should be conducted by at least


two (2) officers, one who performs the searches while the other provides
protective cover.
2. Because pat-down searches are cursory in nature, they should be
performed with the suspect in a standing position or with hands placed
against a stationary object and feet spread apart. Should an officer visually
ROMBLON STATE UNIVERSITY
Institute of Criminal Justice Education
Odiongan, Romblon

observe a weapon, however, a more secure search position may be used as


the prone position.
3. In a pat-down search, officers are permitted only to feel the outer clothing of
the suspect. Officers may not place their hands in pockets unless they feel an
object that could reasonably be a weapon, such as a firearm, knife, club, or
other item.
4. If the suspect is carrying an object such as handbag, suitcase, briefcase,
sack, or other item that may conceal a weapon, the officer should not open
the item but instead place it out of the suspect’s reach.
If the external feeling of the suspect’s clothing fails to disclose evidence of a
weapon no further search may be made. If the item is a weapon, the officer
should not open the item but instead place it out of the suspect’s reach.

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