International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences

Crime prevention is usually not the concern of everyone. Crime prevention is a series of strategies done by the national government to the local government units to combat crimes. These strategies may include mobile or foot patrol, imposing curfew hours, information dissemination, and others.Additionally, the primary aim of crime prevention is to ensure the safety of the community. This study focused on crime prevention of a barangay utilizing qualitative analysis. It determined the crime prevention activities that the Philippine National Police and barangay officials implemented and discovered the challenges encountered in the implementation of the crime prevention activities. The study involved 9 participants composed of 3 barangay officials, three residents of Barangay Lucnab and 3 Police Officers-from the Baguio City Police Station 3. All in Baguio City in the Philippines. The study was conducted from January 2020 until May 2020. In treating the data collected, the researcher made use of thematic analysis. Results showed that the Police Personnel and Barangay Officials are regularly conducting the following activities: regular patrolling (foot and mobile patrol), routine checkpoints, and crime prevention seminars. It also showed that they had challenges in implementing these crime prevention programs such as having depleted personnel, inadequate crime prevention equipment, and instances of unreported cases.