A Proposed Internship Manual for Criminology Students of Olivarez College, Paranaque City

The Internship (OJT and Community Immersion) requirement for Bachelor of Science in Criminology students is a component of the new curriculum for the Criminology program as contained under CMO #21, series of 2005. This is a course designed to provide practical experiences to BSCriminology students in police work especially in the conduct of investigation, office duties and the whole operation of the police organization, operation of the jail and penal institutions, operation of the fire departments, security and investigation agencies, the different agencies comprising the five (5) pillars of the Philippine Criminal Justice System. It also strengthens the knowledge acquired in the four corners of the room, the application of the different sciences in crime detection and investigation and criminalistics. The respondents of the study were the senior faculty members of the College of Criminology of the different schools offering the program. It was limited to five (5) schools offering the same program which included the schools where the researcher is presently connected as the Head of the program, Olivarez College, both Paranaque and Tagaytay campuses, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Muntinlupa. The researcher developed sets of survey questionnaire to gather the data from the respondents. The questionnaire was categorized into three (4) parts. Part I consisted the profile of the respondents. Part II consisted of the instrument to evaluate the contents of the proposed manual. Part III consisted of the problems encountered in the conduct of Internship Program. Part IV consisted of the suggestions/recommendations to further improve the proposed Internship Manual and its implementation. In treating and analyzing the data the researcher used the simple frequency count and percentage for the profile of the respondents and the weighted mean was utilized for the interpretation of the responses of the respondents. The descriptive method of research was used to assess the proposed Criminology Internship Manual in accordance with CHED Memorandum Order # 37. This method was combined with comparison and contrast involving measurements, classifications, interpretation and evaluation. Thus, the researcher employed a combination of descriptive techniques such as normative survey, evaluation survey and content analysis. The study revealed that respondents have the same assessment when grouped in terms of gender whereas they differ in some aspects of the assessment when grouped according to age, educational attainment, eligibility, years of service and rank due to exposure in the field of work. Furthermore, faculty members are being faced with various problems in the conduct of Internship Program due to different factors like exposure on the work, lack of educational advancement and proper coordination with network agencies. As a result of this undertaking, researcher recommends that regular attendance to seminar-workshops and conventions relative to the implementation of the Internship Program be in place, mechanisms in strengthening relationship with other law enforcement agencies to have enough choices in the deploying Interns and provisions of adequate educational materials that will help enhance skills and ability of both faculty and students in dealing with pressing problems in the academe.