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