Community Safety and Awareness
Community Safety and Awareness
This is from a direct resident of an ordinary citizen residing in a small subdivision…
Being one of the residents in his own subdivision, me, him, and us, all are members of our beloved communities, and we are all expected to love each of our neighbors and communities…
And, if we know that violent and alarming events are happening in a week time, what are we going to do next? Worse, if all victims are being quiet and did not do anything to report the incident to police and other authorities, what are the least proper actions to be made?
Meet Joeu Poal, an ordinary resident of Sugarland Subdivision.
Sugarland Subdivision, is a small subdivision that came out when there was the booming Housing campaign of the National Housing Authority (NHA) with the partnership of Pag-Ibig Home Development Mutual Fund (PAG-IBIG) and of course with private company housing developers. Sugarland, located in Barangay Lumbo, Valencia City. The small subdivision in a small city, with limited funds, Mr. J. Poal can attest to the fact the being limited with common household income with each resident in the subdivision, and counted the fact that the subdivision was left by the real estate developers half of the projected expectations by residents that they should be living, if not at highest level of sub-urban community, at least being secured by perimeter fence of the whole Subdivision, but it never came successful. And, in consolation, they can avail of a low-cost housing started by the government, but not able to meet the half-ideal standards of general housing expectations… J. Poal attests, since they are limited to acquire services of own security personnel to take care of the residents, it is very normal to see, outsiders are going in and out of the subdivision premise…
To add for security problems of the said subdivision, one barangay or town share the common road ways each day, and what made residents more safety wise complicated, Sugarland itself, the subdivision is all open to common by-passers, and even he shared that there is one period in the 1990s, Sugarland Subdivision is used as the dwelling place and/or hiding area for syndicated organizations and/or gangs.
A latest event/Alarm…
In a week, the past two weeks, at least two incident of syndicated robbery/hold-up happened in just same week…
What is the very big and alarming problem? Many of members of the community is unaware of the latest incident. Residents of Sugarland are taking walks every week, day and night, in streets with no reliable street lights shining at night times, and even in one occasion one lady was Hold-upped during daytime. Joeu Poal is saying their subdivision is one of the city’s poorest street safety conditions.
We are calling all the public officials to take very urgent actions to address the safety all the streets within the subdivision and also the city streets…
We now should be starting to feel ashamed, if not addressed with immediate actions, we have more Police Officers in the Subdivision, members of the community; also, we even have Managers of electric power companies residing in the vicinity…
Why street lights fail, while we have managers of our own local power companies aware of street lights need? Street lights should be properly maintained in good functional conditions. And, it is very good to know that there are people who are concerned of Safety and security of members and their welfare, and they should never be afraid to air it publicly... Besides, the Safety of Members and Community is a Basis for Good Development and Earnings to become Stable and secure, and it should be a priority of any units of government and society....
Peace of Mind is one way to find Good Earnings...
