Preventive Measures on Prevailing Crimes in Barangay Gaya-Gaya in San Jose Del Monte City: Basis for Reinforcement and Implementation
Vol.3, No.1C
Abstract
Though Punong Barangay implements certain ordinances, the prevailing crimes of community members are unavoidable; however, they can be restrained and controlled depending on how a certain barangay ordinance is strongly implemented and impacts community members. Añago (2021) released on Business World that Philippine crime during the administration of President Roa Rodrigo Duterte down to 63% with 170 168 crimes. Particularly, Police illuminated 49% of the kill, physical harm, assault, theft, and robbery cases from July 2016 to June 2021. Moreover, Balbin of the Philippine News of Agency published on December 1, 2021, report on the killing of the alleged leader of gun for hire group during the buy-bust illegal of firearms conducted by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group at Concordia Subdivision, Barangay Dulong Bayan, San Jose Del Monte City. Thus, these various crimes in the City of San Jose del Monte prove that crimes cannot be controlled and restrained for some identified valid and unreachable reasons. With these crimes presented, the researchers are looking to discover the most often committed crimes and the ordinances implemented to prevent them. Do these ordinances assure the safety of the subject citizens? Crimes still prevail and are unavoidable, though laws and ordinances are enacted, and it happens locally. This study aims to know the prevailing crimes happening in Barangay Gaya-Gaya, City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan.
The researchers used the normative, descriptive method design for the investigation in collecting information. Normative, descriptive method design clearly states what exists in the present study. This method involves gathering and analyzing data about the variables rather than a person.
The researcher interviewed the barangay officials and community members who reside in Gaya-Gaya. They spend time answering our questionnaire even if they are busy with what they are doing. The main instrument used to gather information to answer the specific problem raised is the questionnaire. Part I dealt with the personal information of the respondents. Part II Focuses on the Preventive Measures on Prevailing Crimes in Barangay Gaya-Gaya of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan: Basis for Reinforcement and Implementation. Part III Focuses on the problems encountered by the respondents. Part IV Focuses on the proposed measure to enhance the Capabilities of Barangay Gaya-Gaya in Handling Prevailing Crimes at Barangay.
The study concluded that on the demographic profile of two groups of respondents’ barangay officials and the community at barangay Gaya-Gaya, most respondents came from 18-25 years old, single, high school graduates, and vocational course graduates. In the assessment, the group of respondents on the most prevailing crime experienced, witnessed, and heard in the entire premises of Barangay Gaya-Gaya in terms of damaging the good reputation of someone or defamation, disturbing peace/breach of peace and unlawful taking away of personal property from a person by violence or robbery interpreted as strongly agree by the respondents. As attested by the respondents on the causes of the prevailing crimes in terms of lack of financial resources or poverty, economic status was regarded as strongly agree. The local interventions of barangay Gaya-Gaya were implemented to lessen the number of crimes in the barangay in terms of using walkie-talkies for hunting, informing and monitoring the community, using CCTV cameras to monitor the passers-by in the streets and roads, conducting a patrol of barangay police officer and livelihood program were highly implemented. Lastly, on the practices of barangay Gaya-Gaya using the local ordinances to community members to prevent and lessen the crimes in the community in terms of immediate responding to community crime, posting of barangay ordinances on the official Facebook Account/Website, conducting proper procedures when someone either violated local ordinances or committed crime in the community, conducting proper investigation were highly implemented.
The study's findings show the prevailing crimes in the premise of barangay Gaya-Gaya; also, implementing practices and local interventions would help and promote to lessen the local crimes in the community. Thus, the barangay officials above should evaluate and assess the local interventions to improve the quality and effectiveness.
