the act of determining policies and guidelines for police activities and operations and providing controls and safeguards for such activities and
operations in the department. Involves strategies or tactics, procedures, policies or guidelines.
Police operational planning
the use of rational design or patten for all departmental undertakings rather than relying on chance in an operational environment. The
preparation and development of procedures and techniques in accomplishing each of
the primary tasks and functions of an organization.
Operational Planning
an attempt by police administrators in trying to allocate anticipated
resources to meet anticipated service demands. The systematic and orderly
determination of facts and events as basis for policy formulation and decision making affecting law enforcement management.
Police planning
the determination in advance of how the objectives of the organization will
be attained; involves the determination of a course of action to take in performing a
particular function or activity.
Planning
an organized schedule or sequence by methodical activities intended to attain a goal or objectives for the accomplishment of mission or assignment. A method or way of
doing something in order to attain objectives and provides answers to the 5Ws and 1H.
Plan
a broad design or method or a plan to attain a stated goal or objective.
Strategy
are specific design, method or a course of action to attain a particular
objective in consonance with strategy
Tactics
are sequences of activities to reach a point or to attain what is desired.
Procedure
a course of action which could be a program of actions adopted by an individual, group, organization or government or the set of principles on which they are based.
Policy
are sequences of activities to reach a point or to attain what is desired.
Procedure
refers to a preparatory planon how to carry out a case operation which is the last resort to pursue intelligence objectives when normal police operations fail.
Case operational Plan (COPLAN)
area where case conferences, briefings and debriefings are being conducted by the responding agencies.
Command post/holding area
is a police operation purposely to seal off the probable exit points of fleeing suspect from the crime scene to prevent their escape.
Dragnet operation
is a series of preliminary decisions on a framework, which in turn guides subsequent decisions that generate the nature and direction of an organization. Long range in nature
Strategic planning
A of what a police department should be.
Vision
Keeping in mind that strategy is deciding where we want to be
LONG-RANGE THINKING
FUNDAMENTALS OF POLICE PLANNING
What are the objectives of planning?
1. To increase the chances of success by focusing on results and not so much on
the objectives.
2. To force analytical thinking and evaluation of alternatives for better decisions.
3. To establish a framework for decision making consistent with the goal of the
organization.
4. To orient people to action instead of reaction.
5. To modify the day-to-day style of operation to future management.
6. To provide decision making with flexibility.
7. To provide basis for measuring original accomplishments or individual
performance.
8. To increase employee and personnel involvement and to improve
communication.
What can it be expected in planning?
What are the characteristics of a good police plan?
the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal.
based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel.
Planning
involves assigning tasks, grouping tasks into departments, delegating authority, and allocating resources across the organization.
Organizing
process or technique of instructing, guiding, inspiring, counselling, overseeing and leading people towards the accomplishment of organizational goals
Directing
the process an organization implements in evaluating the progress in attaining its set goals.
Controlling
the recruitment of various people in a team on the basis of their knowledge, experience, talent, skill, and areas of expertise.
Staffing