Performance of Barangay Police Security Officer (BPSO) or Tanod in Maintaining Peace and Order

The objective of this study was to explore the performance of duties and responsibilities of barangay security police officers. Barangay officials, barangay police or tanod and other constituents participated in the study. Data collected by means of respondents' demographic profile, performance question assessed by their duties and responsibilities. Employing a descriptive-correlated design, significant difference was being explored. Interviews with experienced law enforcers like police personnel and people with reputation were conducted to support and validate findings. Recommendations on enhance training programs for them to efficiently discharge their duties and responsibilities and amendments to honorarium was proposed to compensate the risk and sacrifices of barangay tanods in their service. This study was anchored on the duties and responsibilities that are provided under the Memorandum Circular 2003-42 with the subject “Guidelines on Professionalizing the Barangay Tanod”. The researcher tested the hypothesis, “there is no significant difference between the constituents (including tanod) and barangay officials (including barangay councilor and staff) in the perception of the performance of Barangay Police Security Officers or Tanod's duties and responsibilities. The descriptive method of research was used in the conduct of this study, and the use of questionnaire checklist. The statistical used were frequency, percentage distribution mean and t-test. The level of significance was established at 0.05 level.