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Peacekeeping Action Team in Crime Prevention of Selected Villages in Cebu City Philippines
Peacekeeping Action Team in Crime Prevention of Selected Villages in Cebu City Philippines
ISSN: 2456-9992
Abstract: Peacekeeping is the essential function of the police and police visibility is one of the main thrusts of this peacekeeping activity.
Without this peacekeeping activity, it would be desperate for the police visibility may not work in addressing criminality in all situations. It
is needed to maintain the harmonies living of the residents in the community. This study determined the performance of Village
Peacekeeping Action Team (BPAT) about crime prevention of selected villages in Cebu City. The researchers employed a descriptive type
of research characterized by gathering data on BPAT performance on crime prevention in the identified villages in Cebu, namely Luz,
Ermita, Tisa, Guadalupe, and Tinago. Also, the study was employed by the five police stations of which these villages were under. The
community, village officials, and the police officers were the respondents of the study. They were advised to answer the researcher made
questionnaire. The gathered data were statistically treated using the weighted mean. The investigation revealed that on the deterrence of
crime, apprehension of criminals, drug demand and supply reduction, and identification of dependents for rehabilitation the BPAT
performance were rated effective by the respondents. Also, the study revealed that on the problems encountered by the BPAT in crime
prevention, the drug demand and supply reduction, as well as the identification of dependents for rehabilitation, were moderately serious. It
was concluded that the police in the community is a gesture of PNP's commitment to pursue a productive community partnership in support
of sustained village-based anti-crime strategy in collaboration with the BPAT by intensifying public safety information campaign through
regular police bulletins on criminal modus operandi. The researchers recommended strengthening the knowledge and skills of the BPAT in
identifying the drug dependents for rehabilitation in the community through training and seminars.
The information infers that the request diminishment The table shows that the community finds the indicators
endeavors decrease the interest for unlawful medications moderately serious. This infers the occupants voiced their
utilizing counteractive action, treatment, and research. help for BPATs in the city, and for group policing
Supply lessening makes drugs scarcer, more costly and specifically, as a viable method for battling wrongdoing.
less socially endured. It is a valuable device for request Community policing helps reduce crime. This involves
decrease since when medications cost increasingly and are activities that seek to prevent crime and offending before
harder to acquire there are fewer drug clients and less it occurs. It includes activities, which address the fear of
interest in unlawful medications. Request diminishment is crime. The prevention of crime requires individuals,
likewise a valuable device in supply decrease since when communities, business, community organizations and all
the quantity of narcotics customers falls, tranquilize levels of government to work together. As perceived by
supply falls correspondingly as the market for unlawful the village officials regarding the problems encountered
medications shrivels. Connecting these correlative by BPAT, the table shows that the police officers find the
methodologies boosts the effect of the civil procedure on indicator, drug demand, and supply reduction as serious
illicit medication use by assaulting the drug economy from and identification of dependents for rehabilitation as
both sides. moderately serious. The data imply that village officials
with the help of BPATs are the best partners when it
Table 4: Effectiveness of BPAT in Crime Prevention as to comes to fighting crime. By showing that small crime and
Identification of Dependents for Rehabilitation nuisance, activities will not be tolerated in the village.
The village officials may enlist a crime prevention
Indicators Mean Interpretation program wherein participation of residents in partnership
The BPAT: with BPATs to reduce crime in their village. It includes
1. Identifies through the physical 3.76 Effective
dependence of the drug dependents neighbors becoming acquainted with each other and
2. Cooperates with the Police Officers 3.87 Effective averting wrongdoing by monitoring what is going on in
and the Village Council in identifying their neighborhoods. Subjects are prepared to perceive and
drug dependents report suspicious exercises. This is on account of the cops
3. Quickly response or immediately 3.84 Effective
present on house visitation of drug can't be on each corner, and each road in the city, so native
dependents association is basic to battle wrongdoing. Neighbors are
4. Disseminates awareness of the 3.56 Effective the ones who realize what is happening in their group. By
residential community of the list of participating with each other and the police, individuals
activities of drug rehabilitation
program can help battle wrongdoing in their village in the best.
5. Initiates anti-criminality 3.95 Effective
programs/projects in partnership with Table 6: Problems Encountered as to Identification of
the LGUs, village officials and the Dependents for Rehabilitation
community
Aggregate Mean 3.80 Effective
Indicators Mean Interpretation
1. Do not observe drug 2.96 Moderately Serious
Table 4 shows that the majority of the community dependents in the village
respondents evaluated the performance of the BPAT as 2. Lack of dedication and 3.27 Moderately Serious
Effective regarding the identification of dependents for commitment of the BPAT
to identify the drug
rehabilitation. The information suggests that the general dependents.
population can't control the utilization of liquor and 3. Lack skills in the 3.10 Moderately Serious
medications, in spite of the terrible things that happen identification of drug
when they utilize. dependents for
rehabilitation
4. Do not report to Village 2.92 Moderately Serious
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