Reporting Crime & Emergencies

The Security Department believes that the dissemination of information is the key to educating our college community about the occurrence of crime on campus. Students and employees are encouraged to report all incidents of crime.

Students and employees are reminded that our multi-campus operation involves several legal jurisdictions. However, when reporting all emergencies, dial 9-1-1.

In addition, Campus Security needs to be notified in an effort to support and assist the responding emergency personnel. Our assistance can be critical when time is important and the responding emergency team is having difficulty locating the reported emergency.

Students and employees may wish to contact the Campus Security Office and request an emergency response, at which time this information will be relayed to the appropriate emergency response team.

The information box on the right lists emergency and non-emergency numbers provided for crime and emergency reporting. Please keep these numbers readily available in case of an emergency.

Reporting Emergencies/Crime on Campus

All emergency situations involving:

• A crime in progress
• A medical emergency
• A fire

should be immediately reported to 9-1-1. All phones, both on and off campus, and including pay phones may be used to dial 9-1-1 at no charge. While on campus, persons should be aware that different telephone systems might require you to dial for an "outside line" before dialing 9-1-1.

As an added security measure, there are "Blue Light" non-dial outdoor emergency telephones located at strategic points on campus. These phones are easily identified by their columns topped with blue lights. When the red button is pushed the callers is in immediate contact with the campus Security Department. In addition to providing voice contact with security, the dispatcher is also able to pinpoint the caller's location. These phones are for emergency use only.

"Blue Light" non-dial outdoor emergency telephones

All elevators in educational buildings have emergency phones with direct contact to the monitoring station.

To report any non-emergency incident occurring on campus, the campus security be called directly as follows.

When calling for either emergency or non-emergency service, be prepared to:

1. Clearly identify yourself.
2. State where you are calling from.
3. State briefly, the nature of your call .

If possible, the caller should stay on the line unless otherwise advised by the dispatcher. The dispatcher will summon the appropriate police, fire, and/or medical service.

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