Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. 2814

Introduced by Rep. Eulogio “Amang” R. Magsaysay

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The promotion of peace and order and public safety can help boost the
economic and social growth in the country and enhance the effective and
efficient delivery of service to the citizenry.

At present, the DILG in partnership with the private sector has an ongoing
program called PATROL “117” institutionalized by virtue of administrative order
No. 124 dated 2 June 2000, Administrative Order # 36 dated 3 May 2002, and
Executive Order #226 dated 14 July 2003.

This PATROL “117 ” program provides quick emergency response service
for emergency, crime and other public safety concerns involving life threatening
situations.

However, the PATROL “117” call center is beset with prank calls, crank
calls, and other illegitimate calls that automatically clog the system, thereby
depriving legitimate calls to enter the system. For example, from January to May
of 2009, Patrol 117 received 5,200 prank calls and only 260 legitimate calls.
Others are trying to test if the numbers are working while several just dial and
either listen or hung up.

It is the intension of this proposed measure to educate our people
specifically our children, of the importance of public safety in the lives of the
Filipinos especially on handing and utilizing effectively hotline number, and
ensuring crime prevention in the locality. It is also the belief of the proponent of
this bill that youth, especially at a tender school age, is proper and appropriate
subject of such public safety education.

Reducing the number of illegitimate calls in the “117" system will enable
our responders to provide faster response and save more lives.

In consideration of the foregoing, immediate passage of this bill is

requested.
Oir/

EULOGIO “AMANG” R. MAGSAYSAY


FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE)
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES —_)
First Regular Session )

House of Representatives

House Bill No. 2814

Introduced by Rep. Eulogio “Amang” R. Magsaysay

AN ACT
TO PROMOTE PUBLIC SAFETY EDUCATION AND AWARENESS
AMONG ELEMENTARY, HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS,
PROVIDING STRATEGIES FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION, APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines
in Congress assembled:

Section 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as “Public Safety Education
and Awareness Act of 2010".
Section 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared a policy of the
State to involve every citizen in the promotion of safety and security, which is a
pre-condition to development, in keeping with the moral duties, obligation and
responsibilities of a responsible citizenship.
Section 3. Definition of Terms. -
a. Public safety education awareness — educating the grade school, high
school and college students on public safety.
b. Crime prevention — the state of absence of crime.
c. Accident prevention — the state of absence of accident.
d. Responding — proper response to crime or accident.
. Reporting — proper reporting of crime or accident to proper authority
and hotline “117”.
f. Monitoring — information gathering related to crime on public safety

violations.


Section 4. Establishing the Public Safety Education and Awareness
Program. - In pursuit of the foregoing declared policy, there shall be established
a“ Public Safety Education and Awareness Program”, to be incorporated in the
Department of Education (DepEd), Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA), Commission on Higher Education (CHED) curriculum
‘standards for all public/private school levels.

Section 5. Strategies. -

a. Incorporate the Public Safety Education and Awareness among

children of school age, up to college level.

b. Operationalize a community — focused system nationwide.

c. Educate children on the consciousness of crime prevention, accident
prevention, and other public safety undertaking.

d. Educate children on the consciousness to report crime, emergency
and other public safety violation to proper authorities and hotline “117”.

. Educate children on how to respond such emergency on crime, either
personally or as a witness of incident.

f. Educate children on how to effectively monitor crime cases, and
violation of safety.

g. Education children on the existence of a universal hotline number
“117° and how to safeguard the emergency hotline from prank-calls
and unnecessary calls.

h. Educate the citizenry that lesser prank and/or illegitimate calls to
hotline “117” assure the public of being responded when there is
emergency called through “117”.

5 Section 6. Mandating the Incorporation of Public Safety Awareness
in the Curriculum. - The DepEd, TESDA, CHED shall incorporate in the
curriculum standards of all private and public schools the subject on Public
Safety Education and Awareness and establish an evaluation mechanism on the

effects and result thereof.


The public safety education subjects to be taken by the students shall be
the following:

a. Crime Prevention

b. Accident Prevention

c. Reporting Crimes and Emergencies

d. Patrol “117” Program

e. The impact of No-Crime to Society

f. Citizens Involvement in Crime Prevention and Public Safety

Section 7. Intervention of NGOs/ Community. - The progressive
development of the public safety and awareness program shall include the
intervention of NGOs/private sectors of various communities/sectoral groups.

Section 8. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The DepEd, TESDA,
and CHED in coordination with the Department of Interior and Local Government
(DILG) shall issue the implementing rules and regulation of this Act, ninety (90)
days after its approvalt.

Section 9. Separability Clause. - If any provision of the act shall be held
unconstitutional or invalid, other provisions not otherwise affected shall remain in
full force and effect.

Section 10. Repealing Clause. - All laws, executive orders and
issuances, or any part thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this
Act are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.

Section 11. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take immediately upon its

approval

Approved,