Security Deployment Tracking System

Abstract

The United Nations (UN) Mission Security Office has a sub-unit who does the daily radio check to know whether staff member(s) are present/absent at any given time within the mission area. It is the Security Office's responsibility to know the staff member(s) and other personnel’s accommodation location and even movement from one team-site to another team-site in the mission. The daily radio check helps the security process, since radio communication is primarily a means to receive and disseminate information in a timely and effective manner to multiple users in times of emergencies like crises. Furthermore, it is a link between the various entities, sectors, and regional offices of a mission. Personnel traveling out of their designated duty station are to notify relevant radio room in duty station of their absence and to be excluded from daily radio check during dates provided. Similarly, those that are traveling back and arriving in the mission area, are to be included in the daily radio check during the stated period of their stay. But the manual logging and lack of significant data and other information needed is becoming problematic. The Security Deployment Tracking System (SDTS) aims to assist Security Officials to keep up-to-date information related to staff member(s) and other personnel within the Security System. The out-of-date process of monitoring staff member(s) and other personnel was transformed in having efficient information over the web-basedapplication that allow quick saving of data, updating of data, extracting useful data for reporting purposes and an email notification to those who doesn’t do the daily radio check within the time-range specified to do it. This email notification is filtered to certain criteria to avoid alert and email overload.