Over the last five years since 2016, Barangay UP Campus rank 20 th out of 140

villages in Quezon City in terms of peace and order according to the data released from

PNP Public Information Office. Within five years the crime incidents that happen the

most were drug-related cases (250), followed by theft (106); robbery (72); physical

injury (36); rape (21); carnapping (23); and two cases of robbery with homicide. These

crimes are now recorded in the PNP National Crime Information Reporting and Analysis

System (CIRAS).

Those are the reasons why people from the UP Campus should open their minds to

the realities around them and think about their safety and security. Cooperation with

police authorities is not a political issue but about the maintenance of law and order to

protect inhabitants of the campus, especially the youth, from crime and lawlessness

(Usana, 2021). The Philippine National Police (PNP) urged the University of the

Philippines (UP) community to know of what is really happening to their surroundings in

terms of security and safety.

As stated in the letter sent by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to UP President

Danilo Conception the 1989 University of the Philippines (UP)-DND accord is a

hindrance in providing effective security, safety, and welfare of the students, faculty, and

employees of UP. If only police and military can enter the premises of any UP Campus

or its regional units without prior notification to the UP administration, they can prevent

and minimize the number of crime incidents. Moreover, military and police are tasked to

guarantee of being free from danger in school against crime, terrorism and insurgencies

(Montemayor, 2019).
 In terminating the 1989 agreement of UP and DND, it is also said in the letter that

the termination was to protect the UP students after some of them have supposedly

been identified as members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed

wing, the New People's Army. The agreement was being used by the CPP/NPA

recruiters and supporters as a shield so that government cannot conduct operations

against communist and terrorist group. By abrogating the agreement, they can perform

their illegal mandate of protecting the youth against CPP/NPA recruitment activities

(Lorenzana 2021).

According to Hands Off our Children Movement (2021), there is no reasons to put a

limit on law enforcement officers to enter the school premises especially now that they

are aware of the CPP/ NPA abuse in the agreement. They also said that it is the

campus responsibility to look and provide safety to their students and educators from

the schemes of the communist terrorist group. Additionally, they hope that the campus

administration will cooperate in protecting and nurturing the youth and making the

campus a safe place for the children to develop and become better individuals.
Refe

1. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1128192
2. Montemayor - https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1083027
3. Lorenzana - https://www.rappler.com/nation/up-dnd-accord-termination-netizens-reaction
4. Hands Off our Children Movement https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127850