Evaluation of Crime Prevention Strategies Implemented in Lemery Municipal Station
Evaluation of Crime Prevention Strategies Implemented in
Lemery Municipal Police Station
Crime prevention is one of the factors to maintain peace and order in our
community. It is a task performed primarily by law enforcers to ensure security
within the community. But nowadays, there are serious threats to security
because of the ineffective and insufficient crime prevention program which the
criminals exploited to commit crimes, One is adaptation of modern technology to
criminal elements from being getting bolder in the commission of offense. As
O.W Wilson reported in 1977, they have to exert lot of efforts in our society and
the authorities should revise their tactics and be responsive in suppressing the
crime in our country.
Police Strategies deals with what officer in the field do as they serve and
protect to fulfill their responsibilities, law enforcement officers have been given
great power , power entrusted to them by the people they serve and defined by
the laws of the land, state and municipality police operation.
Public safety includes a comprehensive crime prevention program. The
authority develops and monitors procedures and programs to promote safety
and security. It is the responsibility of each member of public safety to promote
crime prevention throughout the community. Their work provides national
leadership on effective and cost-effective ways to prevent and reduce crime by
intervening on the risk factors before crime happens. This approach is to
promote the implementation of effective crime prevention practices.
The only factors that limiting goals achievements are technical emphasis
on the goals of monetary success and material property leads to dominant
concern with technological and social instrument design to produce the desire
result, inasmuch as institutional become of the secondary importance.(Howard
Abadinsky, 2007)
Lemery Police Station is located at Bagong Sikat Lemery, Batangas
opposite to the parish/ church of the municipality. It is compose of 63 police
officers; 2 PCO, 34 PNCO and 37 RPSB. Its present chief is Rey Garganza
Ochavo.
The Lemery Police Station experience several years where crime
fluctuates at significant level. The statistic shown at murder crime is the highest
percentage while homicide followed it. It was depicted for the year 2009-2011.In
comparison, homicide crime attained highest percentage during the same
season of the previous year.
The Following the statistics of crime prevention is an extremely important part of
understanding how your own crime prevention methods in your neighborhood
can be streamlined to be most effective in keeping everyone in your
neighborhood safe. Understanding the overall levels of crime overall and
specifically in your city can help you and your community what to look out for in
order to be most on guard. Often new criminal methods and new drugs enter
neighborhoods, catching communities off guard, until they are completely
infiltrated by the criminal element. The Lemery Municipal Police commonly
arrested criminals who commit crimes against property and drug related cases.
Overall, Crime Prevention in the form of community watch and education
is shown to be an effective tool against crime in communities as demonstrated
through such statistics. This information has been an important tool in making
sure that every community can feel safe. Though statistics can often be
manipulated in various ways, these numbers speak for themselves,
demonstrating a clear drop in crime in thousands of communities after the
institution for prevention programs. These statistics need to be compared across
many communities as each neighborhood and city faces their own particular
circumstances. However, regardless, instituting such programs in your
community will lead to a large drop in crime over time.
The study aims to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the
crime prevention program that the Lemery Police Station being implements, and
how it can be affect and contribute to the peace and order in Lemery Batangas.
The researcher wills also asses the different programs and strategies of Lemery
police station to lessen the crime committed in Lemery. Also, the researchers
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will also recommend to the people in Lemery Batangas on how to relate the
This study will be beneficial to Lemery PNP Station as it will serve as reference
to asses and evaluate the effectiveness of its crime prevention program in
Lemery, Batangas and to determine their contribution to achieve a crime free
community. Lemery, Batangas has recorded offenses concerning crime against
person and property and drug related cases such as shooting of former Brgy.
Chairman and robbery hold up incident which is still under follow up
investigation. These reports prompted the researcher’s to conduct this study.
Objectives of the study
This research aim to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the
Lemery police station. It seeks to achieve the following specific objectives; to
determine the profile of the participants in terms of: sex, age, occupation,
witnessed crime for the last month; to evaluate the effectiveness of the crime
prevention strategies in Lemery Municipal Police Station and to propose a plan
of action based on the result of the study.
Review of literature
This part presents the literatures related to the present study. Information
was taken from informal interview, books and internet.
Effectiveness of Crime Prevention Strategy in Lemery, Batangas
Crime casts fear in Lemery Batangas from all walks of life and prevents
them from taking their rightful place in the development and growth of our
country. It inhibits our citizens from communicating with one another freely, from
engaging in economic activity and prevents entrepreneurs and to effectively
reduce crime, it is necessary to transform and reorganize government and
facilitate real community participation. We need to weave a new social fabric,
robust enough to withstand the stresses of rapid change in a new-born society.
To expect this to happen too quickly is to sabotage proper planning and solid
construction of new criminal justice machinery.
Most fundamentally this strategy requires that government moves
beyond a mode of crisis management and reaction. Government must ensure
that effective planning and sustainable success in reducing crime will reach well
into the next century. Investors from taking advantage of the opportunities which
our country offers.
The study also want to find how the respondent asses the following
crime prevention strategies and how the respondents participate in such
strategies. We are going to ask whether the following strategies are being
implemented with the area: if there are mobile patrols along congested area.
This question will assess if patrol are visible in the area of responsibilities. If
there are random schedules of mobile patrol checkpoint because one of the
factor that eliminate the opportunity of criminals is when they knew that there are
patrol having a check point in the area where they can have their exit. If law
enforcer are conducting seminar awareness program that will help the people to
participate in the program being implemented by the police station. Do the police
officer in Lemery Batangas is having good relation to the community, this will
test if the police officer in Lemery are accommodating to the people and having
a good relation to them. I can identify gambling maintainer and drug trafficker
and user. Here we are going to assess if the people are helping the police officer
in the strategies they’re implementing.
Every PNP chief formulated programs to make the country smooth and
orderly that’s why they didn’t stop formulating and thinking possible. Solution in
crime the policemen are aware that crime prevention is one of the fundamental
objectives of the police although almost any successful police activity involves
crime prevention to some degree such as used here relates to long range
preventive activity such as the work carried out expressed another way crime
prevention is better started as the prevention of criminality. Crime Prevention
program is one of the major factor that affect whether the crime committed in I
particular place is increasing or decreasing .based on interview in police station
in Lemery Batangas is Implementing necessary programs to lessen the crime in
Lemery Batangas first, intensity the police visibility second. Stick holder which is
concern third, police integrated patrol and fourth, crime prevention programs and
seminars. These programs help the Lemery police in preventing the crime and
insure the security of the people in the municipality. It concerns to the
elimination of the opportunity for crime through the essence of crime prevention
programs and hardening the site to foil the commission of crime. Developing
programs and interventions that area evidence. Based and that use a logic
model for identify gaps in existing community services and to use resources,
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expertise and time efficiently among the partners and assessing project impact
and results.
The social conflict, economic and political factors that confound the
relationship between police personnel level sand crime clearance effects are
identified. The findings indicate that the number of police has a negative effect
on clearance rates. However, its effect is minimal. In addition, the social
structural characteristics of nations explain more variance in clearance rates that
do the levels of police, as well as attenuate the observe relationship between the
police personnel and crimes cleared by arrest. No two communities or
neighborhoods are identical neither are the problems encountered by residents
of each community however crime and community safety are key concerns of all
residents in all communities though each community may employ different
strategies in their personnel fight against criminal activity. There is no magic
instant cure for crime and disorder nor is there any alone, every agency,
organization or business that has a contribution to assist in reducing crime and
disorder needs to work in partnership. Evidence based problem solving
approaches appear to be an effective method in reducing crime and disorder.
The oldest and most basic function in law enforcement is the patrol
function. The purpose of patrol is strictly to protect and preserve life and
property in communities. Along with protecting citizens, patrol officers
deteriorate crime by becoming a visible presence preventing potential crime.
Their accessibility to people in the community maintains order and allows a trust
to develop between the people and the department. The process of developing
a patrol officer demands preparing an officer for patrol, and to put these duties
and responsibilities into the hands of an officer of the law.
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A police station which faces problems among its personnel also faces
problem in terms of inefficiency in work. The effectiveness of a station defends
on the materials available on it, if they are lack of materials to use especially in
preventing a crime they cannot be expected to be productive police officers.
Insufficient funds, political intervention in the strict implementation of the crime
prevention programs, less number of personnel to implement such program,
lack of trainings on the part of PNP personnel are problems being encountered
in every police station that affect their performance. Satisfaction on the
performance of these officers can be solicited if these problems are eliminated.
To be more effective, they are implementing several action that will
provide the needs of the people in term of security purposes. The Lemery
Municipal police Station are doing several methods for these to be more
effective and efficient in terms of police visibility within the community.
To be more productive, the police personnel in Lemery Police Station are
conducting several programs that will enhance their personnel and the station as
well. They are tapping support to LGU and NGO for the budget supplement;
they are avoiding the station in solicitation of political patronage, requesting
additional PNP personnel from higher Headquarters to increase the police
visibility in the community. They also have tapping support from the civilians’
volunteers to participate in crime Prevention programs. In terms of their
personnel they send them to a skill training to enhance more their skill in
combating criminals. These are the steps being undertaken by the Lemery
Police Station to solve those problems being encountered in Lemery Batangas.
By these they are securing the people that they have sufficient and efficient
police visibility in the community in providing peace and order and eliminating
possible crimes in Lemery Batangas. The information we gather is based on he
interviewed we made in the police personnel in Lemery municipal police station.
According to them the following strategies is made in Lemery Batangas to
eliminate the opportunity of the offenders in committing the crimes.
Conceptual Framework
To give security and protection to the people is one of the primary role
of the enforcer, It is a common goal of all authorities to achieve the possible
peace and order in the community. Crime prevention is the professed mission
of every agency found within the country, criminal justice system. In practice the
term ―prevention‖ seems to be applied confusingly to a wide array of
contradictory activities. This confusion can be avoided through the use of
conceptual model that defines three level of prevention (1) Primary prevention,
directed at modification of criminogenic conditions; in the physical and social
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environment at large. (2) Secondary prevention direction at early identification
and intervention in the lives of individual or groups in criminogenic
circumstances. (3) Tertiary prevention directed at prevention of recidivism. The
use of such a conceptual model help to clarify current crime prevention efforts,
Suggest fruitful directions for future research by identifying current lacunae in
practice and in the research literature and may ultimate prove helpful in
addressing the seemingly endless debate between advocates of ― punishment ―
and advocates of ― treatment ―.
Method
Research Design
The research design used in this descriptive normative. The term
normative is use because surveys are frequently made to ascertain the normal
or typical condition, practice or to compare local test results with a state of
national norm. The researchers will use the technique of a good survey to
discover the state that gives problems to the member of Lemery Municipal
Police Station.
Participants of the study
The respondents of our study will be the people in Lemery Batangas.
Specifically those who lives near in the Lemery Munucipal Police Sation that can
really asses the effectiveness and efficiency of Lemery Municipal Police Station.
Instrument
Questionnaire is the main instrument to be used to find answers to the
given problem aided by an informal interview and personal interview to the
members of the Lemery Municipal Police Station. Questionnaire was self-made
by the researchers and was divided into five types. First part of the
questionnaire includes the personal profile of the respondents. Second part is
about the evaluation of the implementation of the strategies undertaken by
Lemery Police Station to prevent crime in the municipality.
Data Gathering Procedures
The researchers first sought the permission of Lemery Municipal Police
Station by giving them personally a request letter signed by the researchers,
thesis adviser, and the dean of the college of criminology. These have gained
access for the researchers to distribute questionnaire to gather some
information about the profile of the respondents and also the problems
encountered in implementation of the crime prevention program.
The researchers conducted a pre-survey and interviewed the members
of the Lemery Municipal Police Station. After thorough deliberation, the
statement of the problem was defined and presented to the research adviser for
remarks. The statement of the problem was approved and the researchers
proceeded to the reading on the related areas. Literature of the study drafted
through library researches, and internet reference. Questionnaire was drafted
through the literature and data gathered from the interview. The questionnaire
will be validated by persons active in the field and those with thorough
knowledge on the topic. It will be administered personally by the researchers to
the members of the Lemery Municipal Police Station. Prior to the distribution of
the questionnaire, the researchers will carefully explain it before the respondent
starts to answer the questions.
Data analysis
Data will be tallied, analyzed and interpreted by using weighted mean.
The result will be presented in tabular form.
Percentage distribution will be used for the profile of the respondent.
Weighted mean is use to determine the common problems encountered by the
members of the Lemery Municipal Police Station and for the measures adopted
to solve those problems.
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Part I: Respondents Demographic Profile None

Direction: Kindly check the appropriate box corresponding your answer.

A. Gender Male Part II: Evaluation of Crime prevention strategies

Female Implemented
Using the scale below;
B. Age 18-20 46-50 Please put a check to the box that will correspond to your answers.
21-25 51-55 A — Always

26-30 55-60 O — Often

31-35 61-65 S – Sometimes

N –Never
36-40 66-70

41-45 71- 75
Strategies: A O S N
C. Occupation
1. Continuous specialized training of
Driver members of PNP under crime
Teacher prevention program.
2. Commitment of police officers in
Vendor
prosecution of criminals.
Construction worker 3. Saturation drive conducted by police
Carpenter officers in club house, beer house,
Engineer cockpit arena and other houses of illegal.
Sewer 4. Intensified police community relation.
5. Crime Prevention Program facilitated
Others ( please specify)
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By police officers.
6. Resourcefulness in getting informants to
gather information from suspected
criminals.
7. Random schedule of Mobile Checkpoint.
8. Visibility of mobile patrol along congested
area.
9. Regular conduct of patrolling by police
officers in the barangay.
10. Conduct of information drive for the
community
11. Preventive patrol (including inquiry and
inspectional activity) oriented toward
prevention of crimes and accidents,
maintenance of public order, and the
discovery of hazards and delinquency-
causing situations
12. Response to called-for services.
13. Coordination with the LGU‖s and NGO‖s.
14. Investigation of crimes, offenses,
incidents, and conditions, including arresting offenders.
15. Supervision of public order in the community.
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