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  • 1. Which principle of planning stresses that objectives must be clearly stated before any activity is designed?
A) Proportionality
B) Objective Principle
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) Procedure
B) Strategy
C) Policy
D) Directive
  • 3. A plan that is designed for recurring organizational activities such as inspection schedules is classified as?
A) Tactical Plan
B) Standing Plan
C) Emergency Plan
D) Contingency Plan
  • 4. In planning hierarchy, which type of plan provides long-term guidance aligning the agency to its future direction?
A) Strategic Plan
B) Administrative Plan
C) Operational Plan
D) Functional Plan
  • 5. The Patrol Plan 2030 is anchored on which institutional reform framework of the PNP?
A) Internal Cleansing Code
B) Director’s Development Model
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) Initiation Stage
B) Compliance Stage
C) Performance Stage
D) Institutionalization Stage
  • 7. The element of planning that involves gathering information on resources, threats, and constraints is?
A) Implementation
B) Assessment
C) Monitoring
D) Coordination
  • 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) Manage specialized units
B) Produce evaluation instruments
C) Enhance budget consumption
D) Respond to unplanned events
  • 10. A plan used to break down strategic objectives into measurable activities within a specific time frame is called?
A) Performance Plan
B) Resource Plan
C) Administrative Plan
D) Operational Plan
  • 11. Why are strategic plans considered essential in law enforcement operations?
A) They ensure each officer receives equal assignments regardless of skills.
B) They guarantee overtime pay distribution.
C) They set long-term directions that guide organizational reforms and resource priorities.
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) Increasing administrative paperwork requirements
D) Strengthening partnership mechanisms to identify localized crime drivers
  • 13. An operational plan differs from a tactical plan because the former?
A) Deals with broader objectives that are implemented daily or weekly
B) Focuses solely on budget management
C) Centers only on equipment acquisition
D) Provides immediate responses to an unfolding incident
  • 14. The PGS encourages evidence-based decision-making mainly by?
A) Requiring political endorsement for every police plan
B) Eliminating community involvement in planning
C) Mandating the tracking of performance indicators and scorecards
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 prevents supervisors from exercising discretion
B) It ensures that different units work toward a common objective using coordinated strategies
C) It prohibits the use of specialized units
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) Strengthening stakeholder participation and transparency mechanisms
C) Restricting information flow from communities
D) Increasing penalties for administrative offenses
  • 19. Classification of plans into “strategic, tactical, and operational” is necessary because it?
A) Eliminates the need for monitoring mechanisms
B) Prevents mid-level officers from making decisions
C) Allows planning documents to be locked for confidentiality
D) Clarifies timeframes and allocation of responsibilities across organizational levels
  • 20. In the context of law enforcement operations, contingency plans contribute to organizational resilience by?
A) Increasing paperwork for supervisors
B) Ensuring regular promotions
C) Providing structured actions when unexpected incidents disrupt normal operations
D) Limiting the use of technology
  • 21. Thematic crime maps are important in law enforcement because they?
A) Highlight crime variations using symbolized data to explain spatial patterns
B) Focus only on police administrative boundaries
C) Remove the need for field validation
D) Display decorative geographic designs
  • 22. Non-graphical indicators such as tables and frequency lists are useful because they?
A) Function mainly as artistic representations
B) Completely replace spatial visualizations
C) Provide numerical summaries that help interpret crime patterns before mapping
D) Show only color-coded clusters
  • 23. Crime hotspots are best understood as areas that?
A) Represent administrative subdivisions regardless of crime
B) Contain no incident concentration
C) Display statistically significant clustering of crime events
D) Randomly shift without identifiable causes
  • 24. Spatial regression is applied in crime analysis to?
A) Remove all outliers from a dataset
B) Transform hotspot maps into contingency plans
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) Identifying the likely anchor point or operational base of a serial offender
C) Predicting future political boundaries
D) Choosing ideal patrol car models for the precinct
  • 26. Geographic information of crimes enhances analysis because it?
A) Adds spatial context that reveals where and why incidents cluster
B) Focuses solely on offender motives
C) Removes demographic factors from consideration
D) Eliminates the need for situational crime prevention
  • 27. In thematic mapping, classifying crime data into categories such as high, medium, and low helps by?
A) Allowing analysts to interpret patterns more meaningfully through symbolized ranges
B) Concealing minor crimes
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) Must always be used as final outputs
B) Replace all geo-spatial analysis tools
C) Provide textual and numerical summaries aiding early pattern recognition
D) Depend on expensive mapping software
  • 29. Hotspot mapping supports patrol deployment planning by?
A) Highlighting problem zones where resources can be strategically focused
B) Creating equal patrol workloads
C) Predicting organizational promotions
D) Ensuring officers avoid the hotspot areas
  • 30. Spatial regression differs from traditional regression primarily because it?
A) Removes neighborhood-level variables
B) Ignores the role of geography
C) Only applies to non-crime datasets
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) Investigators want to measure community satisfaction
C) Offenders leave no evidence
D) Offenses occur in random global locations
  • 32. The geographic information system (GIS) contributes to crime mapping mainly by?
A) Combining spatial and attribute data to visualize crime relationships
B) Replacing patrol officers
C) Operating exclusively as a database for criminal records
D) Limiting analysis to boundary visualizations
  • 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) Require no data preparation
D) Ignore spatial variations in crime
  • 34. Spatial regression is appropriate when analyzing?
A) Incidents unrelated to place
B) Temporary events with no spatial reference
C) Random events without geographic distribution
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) Hides property crime trends
B) Translates numbers into spatial patterns easily understood by decision-makers
C) Creates visual illusions
D) Guarantees accurate arrest prediction
  • 36. Non-graphical indicators complement mapping outputs by?
A) Focusing only on demographic variables
B) Serving as decorative additions to reports
C) Providing contextual explanations that support observed spatial patterns
D) Replacing all hotspot maps
  • 37. In crime hotspot analysis, understanding the underlying causes of clustering is essential because it?
A) Helps remove all crimes from the map
B) Promotes blind deployment
C) Ensures elimination of geographic profiling
D) Guides strategic intervention by interpreting the environmental or situational drivers
  • 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) Makes maps visually overwhelming
B) Removes the need for profiling
C) Weakens hotspot interpretation
D) Reveals environmental features influencing offender movement and target accessibility
  • 40. Combining thematic mapping and spatial regression enhances crime analysis by?
A) Allowing visual patterns to be cross-validated with statistical explanations
B) Prioritizing appearance over accuracy
C) Making analysis more decorative
D) Producing unrelated outputs
  • 41. The initial step common in planning across PNP, BFP, PCG, NBI, PDEA, and BID is?
A) Situational assessment to identify threats and resources
B) Deployment of tactical units
C) Asset liquidation
D) Conduct of post-operation critique
  • 42. the PNP planning cycle, “Course of Action Development” refers to?
A) Rewriting mission orders
B) Issuing disbursement vouchers
C) Determining options on how objectives may be achieved
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) Focuses solely on administrative functions
B) Clarifies objectives, constraints, and operational requirements
C) Removes inter-agency coordination
D) Selects vessels without considering the threat
  • 45. PDEA’s operational planning emphasizes “target validation” primarily to?
A) Ensure accuracy and legitimacy before implementing anti-drug operations
B) Generate funding proposals
C) Increase the number of operation reports
D) Reduce involvement of intelligence assets
  • 46. A PNP commander receives intelligence indicating a series of planned robberies. What should be the immediate step in the planning process?
A) Prepare only financial allocations
B) Deploy all units immediately without assessment
C) Conduct situational analysis to determine threat patterns
D) Wait for administrative memo approval
  • 47. During a BFP pre-incident survey, firefighters discover blocked exits in a commercial mall. What planning action must follow?
A) Integrate findings into the fire safety plan and issue corrective recommendations
B) Conduct arson intelligence
C) Proceed directly to suppression drills
D) Ignore it and proceed to the next building
  • 48. A PCG station planning for typhoon response must first?
A) Request foreign vessels
B) Conduct a personnel audit
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) Immediately seize devices without documentation
B) Delete suspicious files
C) Develop operational procedures that include chain-of-custody protocols
D) Prepare travel orders first
  • 50. PDEA planning for a buy-bust operation must include?
A) Setting financial targets first
B) Eliminating surveillance
C) Planning entry/exit routes and post-operation handling
D) Establishing arrest teams but skipping briefing
  • 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) Ignore discrepancies
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) Skip analysis and proceed to execution
B) Immediately finalize arrest warrants
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) Data encryption
B) Execution without planning
C) COA comparison to determine best approach access
D) Issuance of permits
  • 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) Mission analysis and resource matching to determine response configuration
D) Waiting for more distress signals
  • 55. NBI operation planners need to coordinate with local police for a joint fraud investigation. Which planning step is applied?
A) Withholding intelligence
B) Using outdated plans
C) Independent operations with no sharing
D) Unified coordination to integrate roles and jurisdictional responsibilities
  • 56. PDEA agents planning a controlled delivery case must?
A) Avoid using surveillance teams
B) Skip inter-agency involvement
C) Immediately arrest the courier without documentation
D) Coordinate with foreign or local partners and outline monitoring procedures
  • 57. BID must prepare for anticipated influx of overseas arrivals. An applicable planning step is?
A) Reducing immigration counters
B) Suspending border control
C) Forecasting passenger volume based on travel trends and adjusting manpower deployment
D) Increasing arrival stamps
  • 58. After PCG completes a maritime rescue operation, the next required planning-related action is?
A) Ignore feedback
B) Destroy operation logs
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) Leaving the issue to barangay tanods
B) Developing an area-specific deployment plan based on crime mapping results
C) Halting patrols
D) Closing the precinct
  • 60. During BFP fire suppression planning, firefighters must determine water supply availability. Which step applies?
A) Skipping reconnaissance
B) Prioritizing paperwork
C) Ignoring assessment and relying on luck
D) Pre-incident planning to assess hydrants and alternative sources
  • 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) Overlay lighting infrastructure data to identify environmental risk points
D) Delete incidents outside the alley
  • 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) Recommend buffer analysis around bars to determine high-risk influence zones
C) Ignore temporal patterns
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) Ignore the revealed relationship
B) Suggest installation of surveillance in unmonitored hotspots
C) Remove burglary data from analysis
D) Move CCTV cameras randomly
  • 64. When analyzing traffic-related crimes, GIS indicates high crash counts at an intersection with poor signage. The next applied step is to?
A) Shift focus to pedestrian crimes
B) Recommend environmental design improvements such as signage and lane markings
C) Remove crash data to reduce numbers
D) Avoid mapping infrastructure
  • 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) Close the GIS file
C) Ignore the vacant lots
D) Remove streets from the map
  • 66. Analysts use GIS to determine why a stable hotspot persists in a residential zone. The most appropriate application is?
A) Stop using GIS
B) Focus solely on arrest records
C) Conduct land-use analysis to identify features attracting offenders
D) Reduce map scale until patterns disappear
  • 67. Crime incidents appear scattered until analysts include time-of-day filters in GIS. This application allows them to?
A) Identify temporal-spatial patterns guiding targeted patrols
B) Produce decorative maps only
C) Ignore daily variations
D) Remove necessary records
  • 68. A school vicinity shows high cases of bullying after class hours. Using GIS, what should planners do?
A) Focus only on morning incidents
B) Remove school boundaries from GIS
C) Perform time-based heat mapping and design safer exit routes
D) Ignore student movement patterns
  • 69. GIS analysis reveals that drug-related incidents cluster in abandoned structures. What is the correct applied action?
A) Limit mapping to open spaces only
B) Highlight buildings and stop analysis
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) Delete the parking layer
B) Review only weekend incidents
C) Ignore environmental factors
D) Propose improved lighting, surveillance, and access control in parking zones
  • 71. Crime analysts find that incident density decreases when certain alleys are closed for maintenance. GIS helps them apply?
A) Removal of all alley-related incidents
B) Evaluation of road network influence using spatial accessibility analysis
C) Revising land surveys
D) Ignoring the road network
  • 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) Halt night patrols
B) Delete lighting data
C) Propose illumination enhancements in vulnerable zones
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) Present environmental redesign to local authorities for implementation
B) Focus on vehicular crimes only
C) Remove walkways from analysis
D) Ignore simulation results
  • 75. A GIS-based vulnerability map shows that crimes spike near public transit terminals lacking security personnel. Analysts should?
A) Remove terminal data
B) Close the terminal temporarily
C) Reduce GIS layers
D) Suggest deployment of patrols and redesign of terminal layout
  • 76. During a spatial audit, analysts find that areas with dense vegetation obscure visibility and serve as ambush sites. GIS application leads to?
A) Planting more trees
B) Vegetation trimming and environmental visibility improvements
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) Avoid mapping informal vendors
B) Ignore foot-traffic patterns
C) Recommend stall reorganization to improve movement and visibility
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) Focus on vehicle theft only
B) Remove road data
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) Ignore the coverage analysis
B) Adjust or relocate cameras to eliminate blind spots
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) Ignore spatial visibility results
B) Remove line-of-sight analysis features
C) Implement CPTED modifications like trimming barriers and redesigning pathways
D) Add more physical obstructions
  • 81. During an arrest, a suspect refuses to speak unless a lawyer is present. What should officers do?
A) Continue questioning carefully
B) Immediately stop interrogation and provide access to counsel
C) Threaten administrative action
D) Ignore the request
  • 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) Arrest the resident for obstruction
C) Provide the warrant and allow inspection
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) Internal PNP procedures
C) The nature of the offense and his constitutional rights
D) Their personal opinions on the crime
  • 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) Fully admissible
B) Admissible only if recorded
C) Used only to file charges
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) Destroy travel documents
C) Contact his consular office
D) Remain undocumented
  • 86. A BFP investigator enters a private warehouse to inspect possible fire code violations. For lawful entry, the officer must apply?
A) Random entry without requirements
B) Consent of owner or a valid inspection warrant
C) Immediate sealing of the building
D) Threats to force entry
  • 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) View all police documents
D) Be informed of cause of arrest
  • 88. PCG detains a vessel crew for illegal fishing. The crew requests interpreter assistance. Officers must apply the right to?
A) Be detained until they learn Filipino
B) Receive translation/interpretation during proceedings
C) Waive all language-related concerns
D) File for immediate deportation
  • 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) Allow him or his counsel to view inventory and documentation
B) Denial of access until trial
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) Invalid because warrantless entry requires specific exceptions
B) Valid if officers wear uniforms
C) Valid only if the suspect runs
D) Valid because there was a tip
  • 92. A confession is signed after 12 hours of interrogation without counsel. Analyzing the circumstance, the confession is?
A) Acceptable if notarized
B) Valid if voluntary behaviour is shown
C) Inadmissible for violating custodial investigation rules
D) Valid if written in Filipino
  • 93. A person under arrest was not allowed to contact his family. Analyzing his rights, this constitutes violation of?
A) Right to bail exclusively
B) Privacy of communication
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 be informed of the nature of accusation
C) Right to speedy disposition
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) Firearms regulations
B) Rules on electronic evidence
C) Rights of witnesses
D) Chain of custody requirements
  • 96. Officers arrest a suspect for homicide but interrogate him without counsel, despite his request. Evaluating the operation, the interrogation is?
A) Unlawful; questioning must cease until counsel is present
B) Valid if conducted politely
C) Acceptable if recorded
D) Lawful because arrest is valid
  • 97. To evaluate whether a checkpoint complies with constitutional standards, the most important criterion is?
A) Whether the road is narrow
B) Whether officers are in combat uniform
C) Whether it is publicly announced and conducted in a non-discriminatory manner
D) Whether media is present
  • 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 officers suspect wrongdoing
C) Valid if vehicle is moving
D) Valid if driver appears nervous
  • 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) Lawful invitation
C) Standard procedure
D) Valid community policing
  • 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) Lawful if property looks suspicious
C) Valid if officer acts in good faith
D) Unconstitutional seizure; no nexus between operation and property taken
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