Complementing the police force based in the population is the Regional Mobile Group with detachment located at Barangay Abut with 8 personnel. Also assisting the PNP in the maintenance of peace and order are the local brigades (barangay tanods) in every barangay. Although lacking in training and experience, the tanods are great help in maintaining peace and order situation in the municipality. Minor offenses are handled and solved at the barangay level. Police to population ratio was 1:1140. Quezon is relatively a peaceful municipality. The records for the past five years revealed that crimes committed annually are not very alarming. Total crimes committed were 21 registering a monthly crime rate of 2.3 per 25,000 population. Almost half of the index crimes committed was homicide and murder. The recent commissioning of Security Surveillance System - CCTV (Installed and commissioned by CYBERTECH Santiago ) installed in public places plays a key role in crime investigation and disaster management. To protect the municipality from fire hazards, there are nine firemen assigned at the Fire Station in Quezon. The current ratio of firemen to population ratio is 1:2407. For the past eight years, there have been 10 fire incidents recorded in the municipality. The types of incidence according to origin were mostly due to negligence. The total fire fighting force also extends assistance and responds immediately to other units in the province upon request during emergencies. There were 3,851 occupied housing units in Quezon with a total number of 3,887 households, this translated to a ratio of 1.01 households per occupied housing unit or a ratio of 5.22 persons per occupied housing unit. Most of the occupied housing units were single houses (98.22%). Duplex and commercial units accounted or 0.96% and 0.13% respectively. The rest were either agricultural, multi-unit residential, institutional living quarters, or other types of housing units. Around 47.05% of the occupied housing units had roofs made of galvanized iron/ aluminum. On the other hand, cogon / nipa / anahaw for the roofs accounted to 49.93%. Hence, almost half majority of the housing units in Quezon had roofs made up on light materials. As to the construction materials of the outer walls, 34.45% percent of the occupied housing units 47.59% have bamboo / sawali / cogon / nipa and 7.6 had concrete / brick / stone and wood. Majority of the housing units needed minor repair or no repair at all. 73.30% of the occupied housing units needed no repair of it needed, with minor repair only. 19.39% need major repair and 3.6% had unfinished construction.