PATROL 117

  Bacolod City Calling Center
  San Juan Street, Bacolod City

The EARNET-Patrol 117 System in Bacolod City

Bacolod City has a high number of Emergency Medical, Rescue, Anti-Crime and Fire Volunteer Groups compared to other Cities of comparable area and size of population. By December 2001, the City     was already ripe for the installation of an EARNET-PATROL 117 System to serve as the nerve center of an Integrated Response and Dispatch System for the many Emergency Medical, Rescue, Anti-Crime and Fire Volunteer Responders in the City. The EARNET-PATROL 117 System in Bacolod City was set-up during a time when the Local Government Unit (LGU), through Honorable City Mayor Luzviminda S. Valdez, have committed the material and human resources of the City at the disposal of the Program for its institutionalization not only in the City but also possibly in the Province and even the entire Region in the near future.

One further advantage of the EARNET-PATROL 117 System in Bacolod City is the close coordination between the LGU’s Disaster Operations Center (Bacolod City Disaster Coordinating Council) and the Operators in times of Disaster. These and the efforts of the City Government, together with the help of the DILG, PNP, BFP and the BJMP, to spread the advocacy of the community based principles of the EARNET-Patrol 117 System is a healthy indicator of the System’s increasingly important role in ensuring a safe and secure community befitting the City’s title as the Second Most Livable City in the Philippines.

• P/S Insp. Carmencita Saliba, PNP
  Senior Supervisor
  PATROL-117
• F/S  Insp. Jerry Candido, BFP
  In-charge
  EARNET
• J/C  Insp. Samson Abaygar, BJMP
  Warden
  Bacolod City Jail
• P/S Supt. Carlito Españo, PNP
  In-charge
  PATROL 117 Region 6
• Mr. Rafael Apayart
  City Director
  DILG-Bacolod City
• Mr. Aaron Bais
  Operations Officer
  Bacolod City Disaster Coordinating Council & Assistant Supervisor, PATROL 117
• Mr. Joel Legaspi
  Executive Assistant II
  Cluster Head–PAAD-BOB
• Mr. Peter P. Negrido
  Executive Assistant I
  Cluster Head – Mayor’s Representative to the EARNET-Patrol 117 System

Personnel Component
The active personnel component of the Bacolod Call Center of the EARNET-PATROL 117  System is composed of Five (5) Uniformed Personnel from the PNP, BFP and the BJMP duly augmented by Two (2) Casuals from the City Government of Bacolod. The uniformed personnel are working as Operators in Twenty-four  Hour  (24) Working Shifts. As programmed, the City Government has expressed its willingness to provide additional Personnel if the operations of the Call Center so demands.
Equipments
Currently, the Bacolod Calling Center has Eight (8) Phone Lines with the necessary specifications to receive Emergency Calls from the people within the area of coverage of the Calling Center and has three (3) programmed computers to serve the information management needs of the Calling Center.
Linkages
As mentioned earlier, Bacolod City takes pride in having a large number of  Volunteer Emergency Medical, Rescue, Anti-Crime, and Fire Organizations which was started from the late 70s  until the middle and late 80's. These organizations have become the partners, together with the City Government of Bacolod and the telecommunications companies, of the Bacolod City Calling Center of the EARNET-PATROL 117. This organizations are as follows:

1. AMITY Volunteer Fire Brigade
2. ARRT 311
3. Bacolod Rescue Unit(BACRU)
4. BRAVE Rescue Unit
5. Chamber Volunteer Fire Brigade
6. DYA Recolletos Rescue and Ambulance Services
7. SEAGULL Rescue Unit
8. Sum-ag Rescue Unit
9. Tangub Rescue Unit

10. RESPONDER Rescue Unit (Brgy. Mansilingan)
11. WNC DESIRE (West Negros College)
12. CRUISER Rescue Unit
13. Villamonte Rescue Unit
14. Stingray Rescue Unit
15. Philippine Coast Guard Auxillary (PCGA)