Police Efficiency and Effectiveness
ASSESSMENT OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS
OF LEON PNP THROUGH A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CRIMINAL
CASES SOLVED AND CLEARED AS OF YEAR 2009 TO 2013
An Undergraduate Research Paper
Presented to:
Mr. Hanibal E. Camua
Division of Social Sciences
University of the Philippines Visayas
Miagao Campus, Iloilo
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
In Political Science 14
Philippine Politics and Government
By
John Mark C. Calves
Jonathan V. Magan
Arielle Lois C. Robles
March 2014
Assessment of Organizational Efficiency I Page 1
I.
Introduction
Crime is as old as mankind itself. Since the biblical crime at the Garden of Eden,
societies have emerged, laws have been created, and prohibitions have been declared but violations of forbiddances have continued. Crime has been with us from the very beginning; it has never ceased to disturb men’s living together.
Moreover, it has become a common societal phenomenon, viewed by some as a normal symptom, as if it was a functional component of the organization of human groupings (Schafer, 1976).
Societal transgressions have become a predominant apprehension on the
Philippine political culture as well as the system itself. As it can be visibly seen in our present society, population explosion is not only the prevailing concern of the current administration but the increasing number of crimes being documented annually have also inflicted its means of transforming our country into a nasty, vicious, immoral and unlimited adjectives designed to describe our country as such criminal. While people who cannot coopted can sometimes be coerced, social control is expensive and involves the state in considerable financial and human expenditure.
On most occasions, simply the threat of force inherent in the state’s police capabilities can avert the need for wholesale repression. But a colonial has to be cautious in arming a police force; most of them are recruited from a
OF LEON PNP THROUGH A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CRIMINAL
CASES SOLVED AND CLEARED AS OF YEAR 2009 TO 2013
An Undergraduate Research Paper
Presented to:
Mr. Hanibal E. Camua
Division of Social Sciences
University of the Philippines Visayas
Miagao Campus, Iloilo
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
In Political Science 14
Philippine Politics and Government
By
John Mark C. Calves
Jonathan V. Magan
Arielle Lois C. Robles
March 2014
Assessment of Organizational Efficiency I Page 1
I.
Introduction
Crime is as old as mankind itself. Since the biblical crime at the Garden of Eden,
societies have emerged, laws have been created, and prohibitions have been declared but violations of forbiddances have continued. Crime has been with us from the very beginning; it has never ceased to disturb men’s living together.
Moreover, it has become a common societal phenomenon, viewed by some as a normal symptom, as if it was a functional component of the organization of human groupings (Schafer, 1976).
Societal transgressions have become a predominant apprehension on the
Philippine political culture as well as the system itself. As it can be visibly seen in our present society, population explosion is not only the prevailing concern of the current administration but the increasing number of crimes being documented annually have also inflicted its means of transforming our country into a nasty, vicious, immoral and unlimited adjectives designed to describe our country as such criminal. While people who cannot coopted can sometimes be coerced, social control is expensive and involves the state in considerable financial and human expenditure.
On most occasions, simply the threat of force inherent in the state’s police capabilities can avert the need for wholesale repression. But a colonial has to be cautious in arming a police force; most of them are recruited from a
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