Minor Field trip and Seminar Travel report
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University of Southeastern Philippines
Bo. Obrero Campus, Davao City
TRAVEL REPORT
October 1, 2013
Seminar
Overview
Our
Minor field trip is scheduled to be on October 1, 2013, but before we had our
minor and major field trip we had an Interpersonal skills seminar at Usep
Social hall. We had lots of activities related in improving our interpersonal
skills and understanding ourselves and others. On this day, we went to PSSCC at
Sandawa, Matina, to have a visit at PSSCC or Public Safety and Security Command
Center. It was my first time going there. The building is nice. The computers,
the conference room and the room where we saw all the video footage of the
different cameras in the city was really so amazing and exciting. We had a tour
at the building, and while having tour they feed us with the knowledge about
everything we see inside and on how do they really do things there. During the
tour we asked so many questions because the tour awakened our curiosity. We
were really all amazed by PSSCC. We only visited PSSCC in the morning and the
visitation ended at about 11:00 am.
Day 1
Today
I went on a seminar to Public Safety and Security Command Center (PSSCC) at
Sandawa, Matina, Davao city. This is what they call the MMDA version of Davao
City. This is the agency that is in charge of the safety and the security here
in Davao city and is the ones monitoring the traffic conditions here in Davao.
What
I learned?
I learned a lot of amazing things
about their agency; I was able to compare it to its identical agency at Metro
Manila which is the MMDA. I learned about how they manage all the data that are
coming from all of the cameras that they have installed in the selected areas
in the city. They have informed us on how they take actions from the concerns
and the reports that are coming from the different local government agencies
like PNP, 911. Also, they have partnered with IBM and, IBM supported PSSCC by
donating computer devices and Cameras and everything PSSCC needed in improving
their quality of service. I just also learned that there only 3 countries that
has 911 and I am proud to say that Davao is one of them. I also learned that
the PSSCC uses unified edge technology, where they centralize their
communication. The unified edge is the line where the different government
agencies are connected and are able to communicate at the same time to be able
to respond to any problems that might quickly. In this way, dissemination of
information is a lot faster and is more transparent. The PSSCC also use
high-tech cameras like what we saw at the MMDA on our Major Field trip. This
camera also, monitors specific crowded areas and are used to catch traffic
violators. They have approximately 50TB for the storage of data up to 6 months,
where 36TB is allotted for IOC and the 12TB is allotted for TOC. And after 6
months, all the data that is stored will be deleted. But they only choose those
recordings that are important to remain in the storage device so that it can be
used for future references like, for evidences.
What
I liked?
I
liked everything I have seen at the PSSCC and I also like everything that was
informed to me. The office of the agency is a lot bigger than of MMDA and I can
say that PSSCC is more advanced in technology. They have more huge monitors,
computers, and have high end technology and devices. Having known all of these
is really amazing.
What
I didn’t like?
I
think there’s no such thing that I didn’t like in the visit, or the PSSCC
itself. Everything was so cool and amazing.
APPENDIX
What
can I recommend for the improvement of the advance seminar program of USEP?
I
strongly recommend to still visit MMDA at Metro Manila and PSSCC here in Davao.
You could really see the great difference in technology advancement and the
processes they take in order to solve issues that they face each day.
My
advice to those who will take their advance seminar program in the near future:
To
those who will take advance seminar program in the near future, my advice is
that you pay attention to every company visit, be curious enough, ask so many
questions. And learn a lot of things in the seminar.
Minor Field trip photos
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