FINALLY, A SOLUTION TO THE 911 PROBLEM!

For so many years now, I have been trying to advocate the adoption of a nationwide emergency call center, similar to the 911 system in the United States. I was very happy when former President Rodrigo Duterte signed an Executive Order (EO) mandating the implementation of that national system, also using the 911 short code. Sad to say, the term of President Duterte already ended, but we still do not have a nationwide 911 system, supposedly due to technical problems. Even when he was still Executive Director of the Emergency 911 system (E911), retired general Diosdado Valeroso and I have been trying to fix the problem. Now that he is no longer the Executive Director, we are still working together to solve it, and it now appears that we might have discovered a breakthrough solution. To our surprise, we concluded that what is needed is a technical solution to what appears to be a “political” problem. No, it has nothing to do with partisan politics. I am just calling it “political”, for lack of a better term. To go straight to the point, we concluded that the local mayors did not want to shift to the 911 system because they did not want to “waste’ their local systems such as 117 and 168. In the breakthrough solution that General Valeroso and I designed, all local calls to the local numbers will be automatically routed and switched over to the national 911 number. Problem solved. IKE SENERES/09088877282/1-13-24