Execution of Safety Protocols During COVID-19 Pandemic and Lowering Crime Incident in Barangay Gulod, Quezon City

Vol.3, No.1C

Abstract

The researchers conducted a study entitled, Execution of Safety Protocol During COVID-19 Pandemic and Lowering Crime Incident in Barangay Gulod Quezon City. This study determines the respondent’s assessment of the extent of the execution of safety protocol during the COVID-19 pandemic in Barangay Gulod Quezon City and to know the problems or challenges encountered, in addition to proposed measures and crafting a guide to the improvement of executions of safety protocol to lower COVID-19 infections and Crime incidents. Safety Protocols are in place to ensure the well-being of everyone and to comply with the requirements of existing government declarations and issuances (particularly the Omnibus Guidelines set forth by the Inter-Agency Task Force) about the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers are Criminology students who always study crime, crime, and prevention. They noticed that the execution of safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic is a big help to lower COVID-19 infections and crime incidents.

The researchers used the descriptive method mixed with a phenomenological approach. The researchers used the purposive sampling technique to get the needed data for the specific questions in the problem statement. The main instrument used to gather information to answer the specific problem raised is the questionnaire (Checklist). The study employed percentages, mean, and standard deviations, which were used to obtain the data. The respondents of this study will be composed of 20 persons and divided into two (2) categories. The ten (10) respondents are the Barangay Personnel. The other ten (10) respondents are the Police personnel in Station 4 who know the extent of the execution of safety protocol. They execute safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic in Barangay Gulod Quezon City.