Understanding Threats to Campus Security in Baguio City and La Trinidad

Abstract

Campus security continues to be an evolving field and keeping up with new information is as imperative as following the latest research in academic feat. Present day schools are faced with a multifarious issues and problems and no school is an exemption. In the study, the perceived threats to campus security of higher educational institutions along internal threat and external threat were considered. The data needed were gathered through the conduct of interview and themes were derived from the responses of the interviewee. In the study, it was found out that threats relating to campus security were encountered but has limited recognition from respondent schools. It was concluded that the administrators, faculty members and security guards does not have concrete understanding of the different threats to campus security. Organizational factors influence over security has obvious bearing on the appreciation of security threats and the mechanics on how to handle them effectively. If these factors are addressed, experiences of campus goers will virtually increase and experiences improve.