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Smart Security Planning: Your Key to Administration Support

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July 2, 2015 TD Staff Leave a Comment

2. Procedures

  • Familiarization programs and liaison with other jurisdictions (walk-throughs, joint training)
  • Foot, bicycle and vehicle campus patrol coverage
  • Mass notification drills
  • Process to solicit inputs from “clients”
  • Duress codes
  • Follow-up for concerning behavior (notifications to officers on campus)
  • Process to deliver local crime trends to officers
  • Drills (evacuation, fire)
  • Outreach to parking and facilities
  • Evacuation assembly points identified and included in drills
  • Opportunity for police to participate in new construction planning
  • Building access procedures

3. Facilities (External Only)

  • Camera coverage (adequate? all units functional?)
  • Roads/pathways between buildings (patrol adequate?)
  • Perimeter fencing around the campus (exist? Unbroken?)
  • Landscape on campus (free from obstructions?)
  • Problem areas near campus?
  • Interior windows allow surveillance?
  • Ability to lock down building
  • Convex mirrors allow full interior surveillance
  • Paint: ability to remove graffiti easily
  • Exterior boundary obstacles (man-made, natural)
  • Wooded areas where visibility is obscured
  • Dangerous intersections
  • Roadway visibility
  • Debris (including cigarette butts)
  • Speeding on campus (speed bumps, adequate signage)
  • HAZMAT located on campus (signage, precautionary procedures, response training)
  • Shelter in place locations (adequate and identified?)

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