The Safe Haven Award was given Davao City because of its strong programs to improve public safety and domestic security against sophisticated threat of terrorism and other high profile forms of criminality.Among its many initiatives, Oplan Bitag Sasakyan proves to be the key to maintaining the city’s reputation as one of the safest cities in the Philippines. Oplan Bitag Sasakyan sanitizes and cleanses the city against the presence of suspected carnapped vehicles, vehicles with expired documents, undocumented vehicles and drivers without license; This proposition implements No Helmet, No Travel Policy, LOI Katapat/Kapkap Bakal, and other forms of Anti-Criminalities and Impounding Vehicles with different serious traffic violations.