CDRRMO explains CLEAR
disaster-warning capacity
TAGBILARAN
CITY, Bohol, March 15 (PIA)—In these times where information plays a critical
role in disaster resilience, Tagbilaran City innovates with its unique
integrated disaster and anti-crime reporting and monitoring system: enter the Communications
Line for Emergency Alarms and Response System (CLEAR).
An
information hub that banners a highly visible light emitting diode (LED) board
that has the capacity to broadcast announcements and disaster mitigation tips,
the CLEAR announcement board which is remotely controlled from the Tagbilaran
City Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Office Command Center, can even
remotely broadcast localized specific information, like localized disaster
mitigation drills, explains City DRRMO chief Gerard Lavadia.
For
high priority information, like possibly some evacuation or those needing
community mobilization, the CLEAR board installation comes with a siren which
can also broadcast loud audio warnings via a public address system and a highly
visible flasher for maximum reach.
Things
like barangay meetings, events, fire drills, earthquake drills and mass
casualty incident simulations to better acquaint the communities of the
simulations, these can be pre announced to douse out the panic that could
result.
And
each CLEAR hub also packs a host of high definition tilt-able closed circuit
television cameras than remotely transmits real-time images to the command
center.
The
cameras can be zoomed and panned to follow through an action, a person in a
crime situation and when it is stored in a huge databank or live feeds from
nearly a hundred more remote cameras, there is a playback capacity for a better
reckoning and crime reenactment to help police investigators determine
culpability, Lavadia hinted during this month’s Association of United
Development Information Officers (AUDIO) in Bohol on their famed Bisita Opisina
into the city Hall’s CDRRMO.
And
for emergency situations and where there is a need to call for police, firemen
or emergency medical services, in the CLEAR information hub is a yellow phone
that directly connects the caller to the emergency hotline inside the CLEAR
Command nerve center.
It
is as easy as opening the yellow phone’s swing box and picking the phone up.
This immediately rings the command center and the hotline phone operator can
immediately talk to the caller, Lavadia, who keeps the nerve center with a wall
filled with live camera feeds remotely transmitted from the CCTVs, informed the
visiting information officers.
And
for prank callers?
They
won’t simply get away.
According
to the CDRRMO, as soon as one picks up the yellow phone, the CCTV camera
automatically zooms in on the caller so that the operator can have a direct
view of the caller and would know if such were just prank call.
The
live camera feeds from the 12 CLEAR disaster information hubs all help prop up
the city’s anti-crime and disaster resilience capability, Lavadia said.
In
fact, on lost items inadvertently left on tricycles, even if the commuters do
not memorize the body numbers, by simply reporting it to the CDRRMO, the duty
officers can pull out specific time-stamped video feeds for playback recording
the time the tricycle passed a specific CCTV for facilitated tracking.
When
a caller requests for any kind of assistance, the CDRRMC can send in law
enforcers, vector in emergency responders, or simply direct the caller to the
nearest source of help, if only to avail of the service.
Over
this, the local PIA in Bohol said, “As local governments are fast putting up measures
to make communities disaster resilient, we intend to make sure innovations like
this that could be templates for replication of technologies are shared and
known to the communities.” (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
HELP
FROM ABOVE. Traffic enforcers station themselves near the CLEAR information
hub: a disaster warning system that broadcasts information, one equipped with a
flasher, a siren and a public address system, CCTV cameras and a yellow phone
that links the caller immediately to the command center in Tagbilaran City.
(rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
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