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  • 1. Which principle of planning stresses that objectives must be clearly stated before any activity is designed?
A) Objective Principle
B) Proportionality
C) Line-and-Staff
D) Unity of Command
  • 2. The basic component of a law enforcement plan that outlines “how things will be done” is called?
A) Strategy
B) Directive
C) Policy
D) Procedure
  • 3. A plan that is designed for recurring organizational activities such as inspection schedules is classified as?
A) Emergency Plan
B) Standing Plan
C) Contingency Plan
D) Tactical Plan
  • 4. In planning hierarchy, which type of plan provides long-term guidance aligning the agency to its future direction?
A) Administrative Plan
B) Functional Plan
C) Operational Plan
D) Strategic Plan
  • 5. The Patrol Plan 2030 is anchored on which institutional reform framework of the PNP?
A) Internal Cleansing Code
B) PNP Transformation Roadmap
C) Director’s Development Model
D) COPS Program
  • 6. In the Performance Governance System (PGS), the first stage that assesses the current status and identifies capability gaps is?
A) Initiation Stage
B) Performance Stage
C) Compliance Stage
D) Institutionalization Stage
  • 7. The element of planning that involves gathering information on resources, threats, and constraints is?
A) Implementation
B) Coordination
C) Monitoring
D) Assessment
  • 8. The document that outlines the specific distribution of patrol units in a given geographic area is known as?
A) Patrol Deployment Plan
B) Beat Journal
C) Watchman’s Log
D) Incident Report
  • 9. A contingency plan primarily serves what purpose?
A) Respond to unplanned events
B) Enhance budget consumption
C) Produce evaluation instruments
D) Manage specialized units
  • 10. A plan used to break down strategic objectives into measurable activities within a specific time frame is called?
A) Administrative Plan
B) Resource Plan
C) Operational Plan
D) Performance Plan
  • 11. Why are strategic plans considered essential in law enforcement operations?
A) They set long-term directions that guide organizational reforms and resource priorities.
B) They guarantee overtime pay distribution.
C) They ensure each officer receives equal assignments regardless of skills.
D) They prescribe the number of police uniforms to be procured.
  • 12. Patrol Plan 2030 supports community-oriented policing primarily by?
A) Replacing all patrol vehicles with standardized units
B) Limiting patrol officers’ discretion
C) Strengthening partnership mechanisms to identify localized crime drivers
D) Increasing administrative paperwork requirements
  • 13. An operational plan differs from a tactical plan because the former?
A) Deals with broader objectives that are implemented daily or weekly
B) Centers only on equipment acquisition
C) Provides immediate responses to an unfolding incident
D) Focuses solely on budget management
  • 14. The PGS encourages evidence-based decision-making mainly by?
A) Minimizing the use of crime statistics
B) Eliminating community involvement in planning
C) Requiring political endorsement for every police plan
D) Mandating the tracking of performance indicators and scorecards
  • 15. A crime mapping output becomes useful in patrol planning because it?
A) Guarantees immediate arrest of offenders
B) Replaces the need for human intelligence sources
C) Prevents officers from doing foot patrol
D) Reveals spatial patterns that help deploy units to priority areas
  • 16. Why is unity of direction significant in law enforcement planning?
A) It demands that each officer create their own plan
B) It ensures that different units work toward a common objective using coordinated strategies
C) It prevents supervisors from exercising discretion
D) It prohibits the use of specialized units
  • 17. A standing plan becomes ineffective when?
A) It becomes routinary and no longer addresses current operational realities
B) It aligns with administrative policies
C) It is updated to reflect new crime trends
D) It contains clear procedures
  • 18. The success of Patrol Plan 2030 is highly dependent on?
A) Strengthening stakeholder participation and transparency mechanisms
B) Restricting information flow from communities
C) Reducing inter-agency coordination
D) Increasing penalties for administrative offenses
  • 19. Classification of plans into “strategic, tactical, and operational” is necessary because it?
A) Allows planning documents to be locked for confidentiality
B) Prevents mid-level officers from making decisions
C) Clarifies timeframes and allocation of responsibilities across organizational levels
D) Eliminates the need for monitoring mechanisms
  • 20. In the context of law enforcement operations, contingency plans contribute to organizational resilience by?
A) Providing structured actions when unexpected incidents disrupt normal operations
B) Ensuring regular promotions
C) Limiting the use of technology
D) Increasing paperwork for supervisors
  • 21. Thematic crime maps are important in law enforcement because they?
A) Remove the need for field validation
B) Highlight crime variations using symbolized data to explain spatial patterns
C) Focus only on police administrative boundaries
D) Display decorative geographic designs
  • 22. Non-graphical indicators such as tables and frequency lists are useful because they?
A) Provide numerical summaries that help interpret crime patterns before mapping
B) Completely replace spatial visualizations
C) Function mainly as artistic representations
D) Show only color-coded clusters
  • 23. Crime hotspots are best understood as areas that?
A) Display statistically significant clustering of crime events
B) Represent administrative subdivisions regardless of crime
C) Contain no incident concentration
D) Randomly shift without identifiable causes
  • 24. Spatial regression is applied in crime analysis to?
A) Transform hotspot maps into contingency plans
B) Remove all outliers from a dataset
C) Explain relationships between crime and geographic or socio-environmental factors
D) Predict the artistic layout of a map
  • 25. Geographic profiling helps investigators primarily by?
A) Determining uniform colors for thematic maps
B) Predicting future political boundaries
C) Choosing ideal patrol car models for the precinct
D) Identifying the likely anchor point or operational base of a serial offender
  • 26. Geographic information of crimes enhances analysis because it?
A) Eliminates the need for situational crime prevention
B) Focuses solely on offender motives
C) Adds spatial context that reveals where and why incidents cluster
D) Removes demographic factors from consideration
  • 27. In thematic mapping, classifying crime data into categories such as high, medium, and low helps by?
A) Concealing minor crimes
B) Allowing analysts to interpret patterns more meaningfully through symbolized ranges
C) Removing the need for crime analysts
D) Guaranteeing equal distribution of crime
  • 28. Non-graphical indicators are especially beneficial during initial crime reviews because they?
A) Depend on expensive mapping software
B) Replace all geo-spatial analysis tools
C) Provide textual and numerical summaries aiding early pattern recognition
D) Must always be used as final outputs
  • 29. Hotspot mapping supports patrol deployment planning by?
A) Highlighting problem zones where resources can be strategically focused
B) Predicting organizational promotions
C) Ensuring officers avoid the hotspot areas
D) Creating equal patrol workloads
  • 30. Spatial regression differs from traditional regression primarily because it?
A) Ignores the role of geography
B) Only applies to non-crime datasets
C) Removes neighborhood-level variables
D) Incorporates spatial dependence, recognizing that nearby areas influence one another
  • 31. Geographic profiling becomes valuable in serial crime investigations when?
A) Incidents share spatial patterns that point to a probable offender comfort zone
B) Offenses occur in random global locations
C) Offenders leave no evidence
D) Investigators want to measure community satisfaction
  • 32. The geographic information system (GIS) contributes to crime mapping mainly by?
A) Limiting analysis to boundary visualizations
B) Combining spatial and attribute data to visualize crime relationships
C) Operating exclusively as a database for criminal records
D) Replacing patrol officers
  • 33. Hotspot techniques such as kernel density estimation (KDE) help analysts because they?
A) Eliminate minor incidents from analysis
B) Show continuous surfaces of risk rather than simple point clusters
C) Ignore spatial variations in crime
D) Require no data preparation
  • 34. Spatial regression is appropriate when analyzing?
A) Random events without geographic distribution
B) Crime levels influenced by environmental or socio-economic factors
C) Temporary events with no spatial reference
D) Incidents unrelated to place
  • 35. A thematic map showing burglary density by barangay helps the police because it?
A) Creates visual illusions
B) Hides property crime trends
C) Translates numbers into spatial patterns easily understood by decision-makers
D) Guarantees accurate arrest prediction
  • 36. Non-graphical indicators complement mapping outputs by?
A) Providing contextual explanations that support observed spatial patterns
B) Focusing only on demographic variables
C) Replacing all hotspot maps
D) Serving as decorative additions to reports
  • 37. In crime hotspot analysis, understanding the underlying causes of clustering is essential because it?
A) Ensures elimination of geographic profiling
B) Guides strategic intervention by interpreting the environmental or situational drivers
C) Promotes blind deployment
D) Helps remove all crimes from the map
  • 38. Geographic profiling is most effective when?
A) The offender is already identified
B) Offenders commit only financial crimes
C) Crimes share geographic consistency and behavioral linkage
D) There is no spatial pattern at all
  • 39. The addition of geographic information such as road networks and land use helps crime analysis because it?
A) Makes maps visually overwhelming
B) Weakens hotspot interpretation
C) Reveals environmental features influencing offender movement and target accessibility
D) Removes the need for profiling
  • 40. Combining thematic mapping and spatial regression enhances crime analysis by?
A) Prioritizing appearance over accuracy
B) Producing unrelated outputs
C) Allowing visual patterns to be cross-validated with statistical explanations
D) Making analysis more decorative
  • 41. The initial step common in planning across PNP, BFP, PCG, NBI, PDEA, and BID is?
A) Conduct of post-operation critique
B) Deployment of tactical units
C) Asset liquidation
D) Situational assessment to identify threats and resources
  • 42. the PNP planning cycle, “Course of Action Development” refers to?
A) Issuing disbursement vouchers
B) Determining options on how objectives may be achieved
C) Rewriting mission orders
D) Conducting immediate arrests
  • 43. For the BFP, the pre-fire planning stage focuses on?
A) Identifying structural risks and resources before an incident occurs
B) Apprehending arson suspects
C) Releasing evacuation permits
D) Post-blast data gathering
  • 44. In PCG operations, “Mission Analysis” is important because it?
A) Clarifies objectives, constraints, and operational requirements
B) Selects vessels without considering the threat
C) Removes inter-agency coordination
D) Focuses solely on administrative functions
  • 45. PDEA’s operational planning emphasizes “target validation” primarily to?
A) Increase the number of operation reports
B) Generate funding proposals
C) Reduce involvement of intelligence assets
D) Ensure accuracy and legitimacy before implementing anti-drug operations
  • 46. A PNP commander receives intelligence indicating a series of planned robberies. What should be the immediate step in the planning process?
A) Deploy all units immediately without assessment
B) Conduct situational analysis to determine threat patterns
C) Wait for administrative memo approval
D) Prepare only financial allocations
  • 47. During a BFP pre-incident survey, firefighters discover blocked exits in a commercial mall. What planning action must follow?
A) Ignore it and proceed to the next building
B) Integrate findings into the fire safety plan and issue corrective recommendations
C) Conduct arson intelligence
D) Proceed directly to suppression drills
  • 48. A PCG station planning for typhoon response must first?
A) Conduct a personnel audit
B) Request foreign vessels
C) Assess weather bulletins and maritime risk areas to define operational priorities
D) Mobilize all available rescue boats
  • 49. NBI agents preparing for a cybercrime operation need to ensure digital evidence preservation. Which step should they apply?
A) Immediately seize devices without documentation
B) Delete suspicious files
C) Prepare travel orders first
D) Develop operational procedures that include chain-of-custody protocols
  • 50. PDEA planning for a buy-bust operation must include?
A) Establishing arrest teams but skipping briefing
B) Setting financial targets first
C) Planning entry/exit routes and post-operation handling
D) Eliminating surveillance
  • 51. BID officers planning border control operations encounter passengers with inconsistent travel documents. What should they apply?
A) Conduct random baggage checks only
B) Automatic deportation
C) Integrate the findings into an enhanced screening procedure for risk profiling
D) Ignore discrepancies
  • 52. In PNP operations, after identifying threats and establishing objectives, the next step is to?
A) Immediately finalize arrest warrants
B) Skip analysis and proceed to execution
C) Write commendation reports
D) Develop possible courses of action and compare them
  • 53. During BFP response planning, firefighters need to decide how to position firetrucks for a congested area. What step applies?
A) COA comparison to determine best approach access
B) Issuance of permits
C) Data encryption
D) Execution without planning
  • 54. The PCG receives a distress signal from a sinking vessel. Before deployment, the planning step required is?
A) Conducting a fundraising drive
B) Issuing maritime violation tickets
C) Waiting for more distress signals
D) Mission analysis and resource matching to determine response configuration
  • 55. NBI operation planners need to coordinate with local police for a joint fraud investigation. Which planning step is applied?
A) Unified coordination to integrate roles and jurisdictional responsibilities
B) Independent operations with no sharing
C) Withholding intelligence
D) Using outdated plans
  • 56. PDEA agents planning a controlled delivery case must?
A) Coordinate with foreign or local partners and outline monitoring procedures
B) Immediately arrest the courier without documentation
C) Avoid using surveillance teams
D) Skip inter-agency involvement
  • 57. BID must prepare for anticipated influx of overseas arrivals. An applicable planning step is?
A) Forecasting passenger volume based on travel trends and adjusting manpower deployment
B) Suspending border control
C) Increasing arrival stamps
D) Reducing immigration counters
  • 58. After PCG completes a maritime rescue operation, the next required planning-related action is?
A) Ignore feedback
B) Shift immediately to unrelated tasks
C) Destroy operation logs
D) Post-operation evaluation to identify capability gaps and improve SOPs
  • 59. In PNP crime suppression operations, spotting increasing theft in a barangay requires?
A) Closing the precinct
B) Halting patrols
C) Leaving the issue to barangay tanods
D) Developing an area-specific deployment plan based on crime mapping results
  • 60. During BFP fire suppression planning, firefighters must determine water supply availability. Which step applies?
A) Prioritizing paperwork
B) Ignoring assessment and relying on luck
C) Pre-incident planning to assess hydrants and alternative sources
D) Skipping reconnaissance
  • 61. A crime analyst notices repeated theft incidents near poorly lit alleys. Using GIS, the most appropriate application is to?
A) Overlay lighting infrastructure data to identify environmental risk points
B) Adjust map colors only
C) Delete incidents outside the alley
D) Ignore the spatial context
  • 62. While assessing a neighborhood, GIS shows clusters of assaults near late-night bars. What should the analyst do?
A) Remove bar locations from the map
B) Focus only on property crimes
C) Recommend buffer analysis around bars to determine high-risk influence zones
D) Ignore temporal patterns
  • 63. A city planner uses GIS and finds that burglary hotspots align with areas lacking CCTV coverage. The applied action is to?
A) Remove burglary data from analysis
B) Move CCTV cameras randomly
C) Ignore the revealed relationship
D) Suggest installation of surveillance in unmonitored hotspots
  • 64. When analyzing traffic-related crimes, GIS indicates high crash counts at an intersection with poor signage. The next applied step is to?
A) Remove crash data to reduce numbers
B) Avoid mapping infrastructure
C) Shift focus to pedestrian crimes
D) Recommend environmental design improvements such as signage and lane markings
  • 65. A GIS map shows street robberies are concentrated near pedestrian shortcuts through vacant lots. The analyst should?
A) Conduct visibility assessments and propose CPTED-based redesign
B) Ignore the vacant lots
C) Remove streets from the map
D) Close the GIS file
  • 66. Analysts use GIS to determine why a stable hotspot persists in a residential zone. The most appropriate application is?
A) Focus solely on arrest records
B) Conduct land-use analysis to identify features attracting offenders
C) Reduce map scale until patterns disappear
D) Stop using GIS
  • 67. Crime incidents appear scattered until analysts include time-of-day filters in GIS. This application allows them to?
A) Ignore daily variations
B) Produce decorative maps only
C) Identify temporal-spatial patterns guiding targeted patrols
D) Remove necessary records
  • 68. A school vicinity shows high cases of bullying after class hours. Using GIS, what should planners do?
A) Remove school boundaries from GIS
B) Perform time-based heat mapping and design safer exit routes
C) Focus only on morning incidents
D) Ignore student movement patterns
  • 69. GIS analysis reveals that drug-related incidents cluster in abandoned structures. What is the correct applied action?
A) Highlight buildings and stop analysis
B) Limit mapping to open spaces only
C) Avoid action due to private ownership
D) Integrate environmental design strategies such as target-hardening and building rehabilitation
  • 70. When reviewing motor theft patterns, GIS shows crimes heavily occurring near unmonitored parking areas. Analysts should?
A) Review only weekend incidents
B) Delete the parking layer
C) Propose improved lighting, surveillance, and access control in parking zones
D) Ignore environmental factors
  • 71. Crime analysts find that incident density decreases when certain alleys are closed for maintenance. GIS helps them apply?
A) Ignoring the road network
B) Revising land surveys
C) Removal of all alley-related incidents
D) Evaluation of road network influence using spatial accessibility analysis
  • 72. A barangay wants to reduce residential burglary. GIS shows the highest rates near houses lacking boundary fencing. The most applicable action is?
A) Ignore structural conditions
B) Change map symbols
C) Remove house layers from GIS
D) Recommend CPTED measures like perimeter barriers and natural access control
  • 73. Analysts use GIS to compare lighting conditions with assault cases. They discover poorly lit areas correlate with incidents. The applied step is?
A) Delete lighting data
B) Halt night patrols
C) Focus only on daytime assaults
D) Propose illumination enhancements in vulnerable zones
  • 74. GIS simulation suggests that adding a pedestrian walkway will reduce jaywalking violations. The practical application is to?
A) Present environmental redesign to local authorities for implementation
B) Remove walkways from analysis
C) Ignore simulation results
D) Focus on vehicular crimes only
  • 75. A GIS-based vulnerability map shows that crimes spike near public transit terminals lacking security personnel. Analysts should?
A) Suggest deployment of patrols and redesign of terminal layout
B) Remove terminal data
C) Reduce GIS layers
D) Close the terminal temporarily
  • 76. During a spatial audit, analysts find that areas with dense vegetation obscure visibility and serve as ambush sites. GIS application leads to?
A) Reducing mapping resolution
B) Vegetation trimming and environmental visibility improvements
C) Planting more trees
D) Erasing vegetation layers
  • 77. A commercial district shows rising petty theft clustered around markets with uncontrolled vendor stalls. GIS-based application is?
A) Avoid mapping informal vendors
B) Recommend stall reorganization to improve movement and visibility
C) Ignore foot-traffic patterns
D) Shift focus to residential crimes
  • 78. Analysts applying GIS notice crimes frequently occur near roads lacking pedestrian crossings. The correct environmental design action is?
A) Add crosswalks and redesign the area to reduce risky pedestrian behavior
B) Focus on vehicle theft only
C) Restrict road access entirely
D) Remove road data
  • 79. GIS analysis from CCTV coverage indicates blind spots where incidents persist. Applying the findings means?
A) Adjust or relocate cameras to eliminate blind spots
B) Ignore the coverage analysis
C) Expand blind spots
D) Remove CCTV layer
  • 80. A spatial model shows that increasing visibility by opening lines of sight between streets lowers crime opportunity. The applied action is?
A) Implement CPTED modifications like trimming barriers and redesigning pathways
B) Remove line-of-sight analysis features
C) Add more physical obstructions
D) Ignore spatial visibility results
  • 81. During an arrest, a suspect refuses to speak unless a lawyer is present. What should officers do?
A) Ignore the request
B) Immediately stop interrogation and provide access to counsel
C) Continue questioning carefully
D) Threaten administrative action
  • 82. PNP officers conduct a search but fail to show a warrant. The resident asks for its details. The correct application of rights is?
A) Refuse because the warrant is confidential
B) Provide the warrant and allow inspection
C) Arrest the resident for obstruction
D) Show only the back page
  • 83. While executing a buy-bust operation, the police must inform the arrested person of?
A) The nature of the offense and his constitutional rights
B) The names of civilian witnesses
C) Their personal opinions on the crime
D) Internal PNP procedures
  • 84. An investigator obtains a confession from a suspect without informing him of his rights. To apply the law correctly, the confession should be?
A) Used only to file charges
B) Admissible only if recorded
C) Fully admissible
D) Excluded for violating custodial rights
  • 85. During an immigration enforcement operation, a foreign national is detained. Officers must apply his right to?
A) Travel without restrictions
B) Contact his consular office
C) Remain undocumented
D) Destroy travel documents
  • 86. A BFP investigator enters a private warehouse to inspect possible fire code violations. For lawful entry, the officer must apply?
A) Threats to force entry
B) Consent of owner or a valid inspection warrant
C) Random entry without requirements
D) Immediate sealing of the building
  • 87. A person arrested under a checkpoint stop asks for the reason for his detention. Officers must apply his right to?
A) Remain uninformed until investigation is complete
B) Know only the arresting officer’s name
C) Be informed of cause of arrest
D) View all police documents
  • 88. PCG detains a vessel crew for illegal fishing. The crew requests interpreter assistance. Officers must apply the right to?
A) Receive translation/interpretation during proceedings
B) Waive all language-related concerns
C) File for immediate deportation
D) Be detained until they learn Filipino
  • 89. During an operation, a minor is arrested for theft. To apply the rights correctly, officers must?
A) Provide diversion procedures and ensure presence of a guardian
B) Treat him as an adult suspect
C) Deny access to social workers
D) Immediately prosecute
  • 90. A suspect requests to see the evidence taken from him after arrest. Officers must apply?
A) Denial of access until trial
B) Allow him or his counsel to view inventory and documentation
C) Destroy the inventory
D) Show only photocopies
  • 91. Officers enter a home without a warrant due to an anonymous tip about illegal drugs. No exigent circumstances exist. Analyzing the situation, the entry is?
A) Valid only if the suspect runs
B) Invalid because warrantless entry requires specific exceptions
C) Valid because there was a tip
D) Valid if officers wear uniforms
  • 92. A confession is signed after 12 hours of interrogation without counsel. Analyzing the circumstance, the confession is?
A) Valid if written in Filipino
B) Inadmissible for violating custodial investigation rules
C) Acceptable if notarized
D) Valid if voluntary behaviour is shown
  • 93. A person under arrest was not allowed to contact his family. Analyzing his rights, this constitutes violation of?
A) Privacy of communication
B) Right to bail exclusively
C) Right against self-incrimination only
D) Right to counsel and immediate notice to family
  • 94. BID detains a foreigner for overstaying but refuses to inform him of reasons for his detention. Analysis shows a violation of?
A) Right to education
B) Right to speedy disposition
C) Right to be informed of the nature of accusation
D) Non-refoulement
  • 95. PDEA confiscates items from a suspect but fails to conduct an inventory and photography in presence of witnesses. Analyzing the situation, this violates?
A) Rights of witnesses
B) Rules on electronic evidence
C) Chain of custody requirements
D) Firearms regulations
  • 96. Officers arrest a suspect for homicide but interrogate him without counsel, despite his request. Evaluating the operation, the interrogation is?
A) Lawful because arrest is valid
B) Unlawful; questioning must cease until counsel is present
C) Acceptable if recorded
D) Valid if conducted politely
  • 97. To evaluate whether a checkpoint complies with constitutional standards, the most important criterion is?
A) Whether officers are in combat uniform
B) Whether media is present
C) Whether the road is narrow
D) Whether it is publicly announced and conducted in a non-discriminatory manner
  • 98. Evaluate the legality: Police search a vehicle without consent or warrant, but no probable cause exists. The search is?
A) Valid if officers suspect wrongdoing
B) Valid if vehicle is moving
C) Valid if driver appears nervous
D) Invalid; vehicle searches require probable cause or recognized exception
  • 99. Evaluate the scenario: NBI arrests a person by invitation, telling him he is free to leave but preventing him from actually leaving. This is?
A) Custodial arrest disguised as voluntary appearance
B) Valid community policing
C) Standard procedure
D) Lawful invitation
  • 100. Evaluate whether the following action is lawful: PNP seizes property during an operation unrelated to the seized items. There is no warrant?
A) Valid if officer acts in good faith
B) Lawful if property looks suspicious
C) Unconstitutional seizure; no nexus between operation and property taken
D) Acceptable if later included in the report
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