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countries. An analysis was done using INTERPOL data for the Philippines.
For purpose of comparison, data were drawn for five of the seven offenses
used to compute the United States FBI's index of crime. Index offenses
include murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and motor vehicle
theft. The Philippines does not report data for burglary, and theft data do not
exclude burglary and are thus not comparable to FBI data on larceny. Lacking
constituting the Index used for trend calculation purposes cannot be made.
The Philippines will be compared with Japan (country with a low crime rate)
and USA (country with a high crime rate) with the data available
data, the rate of murder decreased from 14.11 to 7.85, a decrease of 44.4%.
The rate for rape was not given for 1997. The rate of robbery increased from
7.94 to 8.06, an increase of 1.5%. The rate for aggravated assault decreased
from 17.37 to 15.10 per 100,000, an decrease of 13.1%. Data were not given
Board (2009) focused on Crime Incidence, Crime Rate/ and Crime Solution
2008, among the provinces and cities in Region XI, Davao del Sur posted the
lowest crime rate with only 40 crimes per 100,000 population. Among the four
provinces in the region, Davao del Norte had the highest crime rate of 74
crimes per 100,000 while Samal City recorded the lowest crime incidence
On the other hand, of the total 5,164 crimes committed in the region in
2008, about 60 percent (3,115) of this were non-index crimes while the
remaining 40 percent
(2,049) were index crimes. Among the index crimes committed, physical
injuries recorded the highest with 573 cases or about 28.0 percent of the total
index crimes. This was followed by murder with 540 reported cases or roughly
26.4 percent of the total. Homicide posted the lowest among index crimes
committed in the region with only 132 cases or 6.4 percent of the total (NCSB,
2009).
solved, the Philippine National Police in Region XI was able to solve 90.6
percent of the total crimes reported in the region in 2008. The province of
Compostela Valley topped the other provinces in the region as it recorded the
highest crime solution efficiency with 92.8 percent while police authorities in
Samal City managed to solve 98.5 percent, the highest among the cities in
peaceful. It has a very low crime rate at 7.15%, with a crime solution
1:1,788. This is made possible through the concerted efforts of the Carmona
PNP, private volunteer groups, and organizations with the local government
other PNP units and agencies both in the provincial and national
fires are quickly responded to by the local Bureau of Fire Station with
(http://carmonagov.net/home, 2010).
the victim of a common property crime such as burglary or car theft has
decreased gradually in the last few years. Yet, owing to an extended rise in
crime rates in the 1960s and 1970s, the likelihood of a family falling victim to
a crime in the year 2000 is still between two and three times higher than it
rates that are several times what they were in the 1960s. Violence against
women and crimes committed by and against youth are matters of particular
insecurity and fear remain high. It is well known that levels of insecurity are
unemployment and little hope for the future. Crime, however, remains a main
show that nine of the 10 countries with the highest rates of serious violent
crime are those with economies in transition. Murder rates in some cities in
out and render at least four hours of security patrols in their areas of
office and before they go home,” said Bartolome. The target time will
be from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in the morning and from 3:00 p.m. to
is to make use of that time on matters that need the police concerns
policemen doing office work, he said some policemen in other units will
the threat of big rebel groups like communist and Moro rebels will be
programs and to maximize visibility. And also don’t let the ride in a
mobile since mostly they are on foot patrol to observe more the
community safety, this way they could easily establish connection with
responsibilities to make sure that they are safe by the police force.
which in this program they will maximize police visibility out in the
in random manner.
state of being safe which every person assures in the place they were
living and for their daily lives. People need to feel safe at all times
under any circumstances. It does not matter if you are at home, at
emergency assistance.
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limited to crime control but also to reduce the fear within the
community and wins the resident trust. Therefore, patrolling is one way
neighborhoods. The new beat patrols will hit the streets of Dundee and
Benson at 5:30 p.m. each night with the goal of keeping everyone in
Capt. Shayna Ray said with a newly graduated class, there are
now more officers on the street. It's welcome news for Megan Hunt and
her business partner, who just opened up the Hello Holiday shop in
Dundee.
The new beat will also reach out to residential areas, where Ray
the community.
The study of Tais et al. (2012) on the status of Police Patrol Unit
result, that crimes that would normally take place in fairly public areas,
Weisburd, 1995).
within fifteen beats, and each beat was assigned to a proactive group
1974).
that preventive patrol has no effect even though other studies provided
identifiable.
the presence of police in some areas. These programs hold lessons for
environments. Citizen in the community report that they felt safer since
and increase the level of respect people have for their fellow citizens.
Braga (2001) all provide insights into the effects of “hot spot” policing,
(2001) also examined the effects of providing a clear strategic goal for
crime. These studies provide the basis for the conclusion that certain
and random preventive patrol activities are ineffective, even though the
police thinking about patrol strategies for more than two decades
the study, one hundred and ten locales were identified and split into
worth noting that the experiment was designed only to measure the
activities of officers during the time they were within each zone was not
spent within the boundaries of the hot spot included activities unrelated
caveats: first, there was no test of whether criminal activity was merely
far.
patrol efforts, wherein police units were freed from the responsibility of
illegal weapons and drugs; in target area two, police were instructed to
violent crimes.
review of “hot spot” policing studies. Out of nine studies, seven showed
likely accounts for the lack of observed reduced criminal activity in said
However, targeted patrol activities appear to have the same effect with
and reducing criminal activity within any given zone (Braga, 2001).