Campus Safety 101

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Campus Safety 101

• Presented by
• Patrick W. Gagnon
• Director of Security Safety

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Security and Safety Mission

• The philosophy of the St. Lawrence University
  Security and Safety department is to provide a
  safe and secure environment for the entire
  University community. The Security and Safety
  Department offers a wide variety of services to
  assist students, staff and faculty members in
  their day to day living. All services are widely
  publicized. We asked that all students, staff,
  and faculty members familiarize themselves with
  the handbook and all the services provided by
  this department. The first step in a successful
  security and safety program is public awareness.

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Department Overview

• Our office is located at 76 Park Street
• The Diana B. Torrey 82 Health and Counseling
  Center
  

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Staff

• Dispatch Center
• 5 Security Safety Dispatchers staff our
  dispatch center 24/7/365
  
• Our dispatchers monitor our emergency phone
  lines, fire alarm panels, access control alarms,
  blue phone activations, yellow call box
  activations, and surveillance video systems.
• Information is passed by the dispatchers to the
  Security Safety Officers in the field by 2 way
  radio transmissions or cellular phone.

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Staff

• Other services provided by our dispatch center
  
  
• Replacement of lost or damaged access control
  cards
  
• Registration of motor vehicles or bicycles

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Staff

• Security Safety Officers
• We have 8 Security Safety Officers that provide
  24/7/365 patrol and response services.
  
• Our officers respond to violations of NYS Penal
  Law, Student Handbook violations, fire alarms,
  access control alarms, and intruder alarms.
  
• Our officers conduct investigations and work
  closely with Canton Village Police, Canton Fire
  Rescue, St. Lawrence County Sheriffs Department,
  and New York State Police.

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Security Officer Patrol Vehicles
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Security Officer Bicycle Patrol
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Staff

• Technical Services Coordinator
• Manages our card access control systems and
  surveillance camera systems
  
• Manages our parking program
• Manages our university vehicle use and training
  program.

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Staff

• Administrative Assistant
• Manages the clerical operations of the
  department
  
• Serves as a liaison between administrators and
  the dispatch staff
  
• Supports the role of the Technical Services
  Coordinator
  
• Serves as an advisor to our Student Safety Team

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Staff

• Transportation Coordinator
• Manages transportation services program for the
  university
  
• Coordinates shuttle van transportation to
  airports, train stations, and bus stations
  
• Coordinates break bus transportation reservations

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Staff

• Student Safety Team
• Consists of 20 students dedicated to providing
  safety patrol assistance to the Security Safety
  Officers
  
• Patrols campus walkways, roadways, and campus
  buildings
  
• Provides Safe Walks as requested
• Reports incidents to dispatch for officer
  response, maintenance response, or for
  documentation purposes
  
• Performs non-emergency transports to Canton
  Potsdam Hospital and various doctors offices

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Student Safety Patrol Vehicles
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Staff

• First Response Team
• Consists of 20 students dedicated to providing
  emergency medical services
  
• Performs patrols of campus walkways, roadways,
  and campus buildings
  
• Reports incidents to dispatch for officer
  response, maintenance response, or for
  documentation purposes
  

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First Response Team Vehicle
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Staff

• Assistant Director Deputy Chief
• Supervises operations of the Security Safety
  Department
  
• Provides support to the Administrative Assistant
  and Technical Services Coordinator
  
• Conducts investigations
• Coordinates security safety operations for
  university events

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Staff

• Assistant Director Supervision
• Supervises officers and dispatchers during
  evening and weekend hours of operation
  
• Conducts investigations as needed

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Staff

• Director Chief
• Administration of all Security Safety
  Department operations and staff members
  
• Serves on University Safety Committee, Campus
  Safety Advisory Board, Judicial Review Committee,
  Emergency Planning Committee, and Radiation
  Safety Committee
• Coordinates services with local police, fire, and
  rescue department administrators
  

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Clery Act

• Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy
  and Campus Crime Statistics Act" (originally the
  Campus Security Act)
  
• Colleges and Universities have a responsibility
  to provide
  
• Policy disclosure, records collection and
  retention, and information dissemination.

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Policy disclosure

• Colleges/Universities must provide their campus
  community and the public with accurate statements
  of its current policies and practices regarding
  
• Procedures for students and others to report
  criminal actions or other emergencies occurring
  on campus security of and access to campus
  facilities and campus law enforcement.

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Policies and procedures for students and others
to report criminal actions or other emergencies
occurring on campus security of and access to
campus facilities and campus law enforcement can
be found at the following web link

http//www.stlawu.edu/student_handbook/security.ht
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Records collection and retention

• Colleges/Universities are required to keep campus
  records and to request records from law
  enforcement agencies.
  
• Colleges/Universities must keep records of crimes
  reported to campus security authorities.
  
• Colleges/Universities must also make a reasonable
  good-faith effort to obtain certain crime
  statistics from appropriate law enforcement
  agencies to include in an annual security report
  and the web-based report to Department of ED.
• If a College/University maintains a campus police
  or security office, you are required to keep a
  daily crime log that must be open to public
  inspection.

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Information dissemination

• Colleges/Universities are required to provide
  campus community members with information
  necessary to make informed decisions about their
  safety, and must disseminate information in
  several ways.
• Colleges/Universities must
• Provide a timely warning of any Clery Act crime
  that might represent an ongoing threat to the
  safety of students or employees
  
• Provide access to your crime log during normal
  business hours
  
• Publish an annual security report and distribute
  it to all current students and employees, and
  inform prospective students and employees about
  the content and availability of the report
• Inform the campus community where to obtain
  information about registered sex offenders
  
• Submit their institutions crime statistics to ED
  through a web-based data collection system.

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New York StateSex Offender Registry

• http//criminaljustice.state.ny.us/nsor/index.htm

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Who is responsible to report

• Campus police
• Non-police security staff responsible for
  monitoring campus property
  
• Individuals and offices designated by the campus
  security policies as those to whom crimes should
  be reported
  
• Officials of the institution with significant
  responsibility for student and campus activities.

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Crime Statistics

• St. Lawrence University Crime Statistics and
  Crime Definitions are available on our website at
  the following web link
  
• http//web.stlawu.edu/security/fbi.php

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Safe Walks

• Security Safety provides safe walks from any
  university affiliated or owned property to
  another university affiliated or owned property.
  
• Safe Walks consist of a personal escort by a
  Security Safety Officer or Student Safety Team
  Member.
  
• To request a safe walk at any time of the day or
  night, simply call 5555 from a campus phone or
  229-5555 from an outside line or cellular phone.

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Sexual Assault, Relationship Violence, Physical
Violence, and Stalking

• Incidents involving Sexual Assault, Relationship
  Violence, Physical Violence, or Stalking must be
  reported to Security Safety at 5555 or
  229-5555.

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Once an incident is reported

• Our first commitment will be to the survivors
  safety. Once the safety of the survivor is
  confirmed, the survivor controls the process.
  
• We will provide the survivor with any one or all
  of the following resources/services
  
• Medical treatment
• Advocate from our Advocate Program
• Counselor from our Counseling Center
• Community Outreach Programs (CAVA and Renewal
  House)
  
• Law Enforcement
• Safe room

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Access Control System

• St. Lawrence University has installed a card
  access control system, requiring our community
  members to pass their access cards to access most
  of our campus buildings.
• The access control system also detects propped
  doors or forced entry and an alarm activates at
  both the door and at the dispatch center.

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HERE'S HOW IT WORKS

• By passing ID cards within 3-4 inches of an
  electronic reader at the main doors of each
  building, our campus community members are able
  to  enter immediately.
• Because the card holder must have access rights
  to that building or doors will not unlock, the
  main entrances of the residence halls have a
  yellow emergency phone. The emergency phones are
  equipped with a key pad to dial on campus phone
  number and a red panic button that dials Security
  Safety directly.

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Card Components, Reader, and Yellow Call Box
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Blue Phones/Yellow Call Boxes
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Fines for the following Canton Village
Ordinances

• Open Container
• 1st Offense is 150
• 2nd Offense is 200
• 3rd Offense is 300
• Public Urination
• 1st Offense is 150
• 2nd Offense is 200
• 3rd Offense is 300

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Cross Walk Safety

• FOLLOW THE PEDESTRIAN RULES OF THE ROADJust
  like motorists, pedestrians are expected to
  follow certain rules of the road
  
• Pedestrians are to use crosswalks to cross
  streets.
  
• Pedestrians are to use sidewalks whenever they
  are safely available.
  
• When sidewalks are unavailable, pedestrians must
  walk facing traffic as far to the left as
  possible.
  
• Pedestrians must obey traffic signals and/or
  traffic officers.
  
• At crosswalks where there isn't a traffic control
  signal or officer, pedestrians have the right of
  way.
  
• If there aren't any crosswalks, signs or signals,
  the pedestrian must yield the right-of-way to all
  vehicles.
  
• Wear bright colored clothing or reflective
  materials when using crosswalks in low light
  conditions.
  
• Before entering the crosswalk to cross the
  street, pedestrians must be certain that vehicles
  approaching the crosswalk from both directions
  have come to a complete stop.

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Weapons Policy

• Weapons Policy
• The New York State Legislature adopted the
  following legislation regarding firearms on
  campus
  
• Section 265.01(3) Any person who knowingly has
  in his possession a rifle, shotgun, or
  
• firearm in or upon a building or the grounds,
  used for educational purposes, of any
  
• school, college or university without the written
  authorization of such educational
  
• institution, is guilty of a Class A Misdemeanor,
  and is guilty of a Class D Felony if he
  
• has previously been convicted of any crime.
• Section 265.06 It shall be unlawful for any
  person age sixteen or older to knowingly
  
• possess any air-gun, spring gun, or other
  instrument or weapon in which the propelling
  
• force is a spring, air, piston or CO2 cartridge
  in or upon a building or grounds, used for
  
• educational purposes, of any school, college or
  university, without the written
  
• authorization of such educational institution.
• In accordance with this law, rifles, shotguns, BB
  guns, pellet guns, hunting bows, knives,
  
• swords, martial arts weapons, sling shots and
  other weapons, as well as ammunition
  
• associated with these weapons, are prohibited on
  campus. Unusual or special exceptions
  
• are made only with the permission of the director
  of security and safety. Violations result
  
• in referral to the Student Judiciary Board or
  Human Resources, confiscation and possible
  
• loss of item in violation, and may be suspect to
  arrest in accordance with Section
  
• 265.01(3) or Section 265.06 as described above.

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Web Sites and Contact Information

• Security Safety dial 5555 or 229-5555
• www.stlawu.edu/security
• Canton Village Police dial 911 0r 386-4561
• Canton Potsdam Hospital dial 265-3300
• Canton Rescue Squad dial 911 0r 5555
• Advocates Program dial 229-5122
• www.stlawu.edu/advocates
• Health and Counseling Center dial 5391/5392 or
  229-5391/5392
  
• www.stlawu.edu/health

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Questions and Answers