Assessing public safety in Tagum City: quantitative perceptions of female students: basis for enhancement proposal

Abstract

The study dealt on assessing the public safety among female criminology students of University of Mindanao Tagum College, Mabini Street, Tagum City, Davao del Norte. The primary goal of the study is to determine the level of public safety based on a sense of personal security, the experience of victimization, and satisfaction with the Police. It utilized a quantitative non-experimental single variable study with 245 female criminology students from UM Tagum College as the respondent of the study. Determining the mean is the statistical tool used for data treatment. Results showed that a high level of public safety in Tagum city in terms of sense of personal safety, satisfaction; with the police, the experience of victimization. The domain of public safety in Tagum city has a high rating given by the respondents from UM Tagum College, meaning it is safe enough to live and study within the area.