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Safety Measures
Protecting Property Reports Other Services
Employment
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Department
of Public Safety
The Georgetown Law Department of Public Safety consists of twenty three uniformed special police officers, five communications officers, two security officers, eight student guards, five sergeants, two shuttle bus drivers and one administrative assistant under the leadership of the Director of Public Safety and Emergency Management, Ed Piper. All campus special police officers have the power of arrest and are commissioned by the Metropolitan Police Department. All special police officers are required to have at least 250 hours of police training. Officers without previous law enforcement training are required to successfully complete the Washington D.C. University Consortium Police Academy. The officers are armed with batons and OC spray and wear protective body armor. The Georgetown Law Department of Public Safety maintains an excellent working relationship with the Georgetown University Department of Public Safety, Metropolitan Police Department, the Capitol Police Department, the Supreme Court Police Department, the U.S Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Georgetown law campus security systems includes electronic building access control, close circuit television/surveillance cameras, strategically placed call boxes, panic alarms, fire control systems and campus loudspeaker system. All of the security systems are monitored 24 hours a day by a communications officer located in the Communications Center within the first floor of Gewirz. Georgetown Law Department of Public Safety is an advocate of community policing. It stations uniformed special police officers, security officers and student guards at strategic locations throughout the buildings of the campus community. Their primary function is to check identification of all persons entering campus buildings. There is also a uniformed special police officer assigned the task of providing high visibility foot or vehicle patrol of the campus on every shift. There is always a shift supervisor/Sergeant assigned to every shift. Their office is located in McDonough room 125. Students, faculty and staff can request a DPS escort to their vehicle or to the Washington Court Hotel taxi stand by calling 202-662-9325. The Department of Public Safety also provides a free shuttle service each afternoon and evening Monday through Friday to the Union Station. The shuttle departs from the 2nd Street side in front of the McDonough building. There is also shopping shuttle for students residing in Gewirz. The tentative schedules are as follows: Union Station 5:00PM – 1:00AM (5-7 days/week) Gewirz Shopping Shuttle (4 days/week) * Schedule being finalized.
The Director of Public Safety and Emergency Management requires all DPS personnel to be trained in the Incident Command System/National Incident Command System. All DPS personnel regularly participate in fire evacuation drills and all hazard response simulations. DPS was recently informed by Georgetown University’s Office of Emergency Management that it will be included as a recipient of specialized emergency management consulting and training as part of a federal grant. The Director of Public Safety and Emergency Management is responsible for coordinating the SAOC Senior Administrator in Charge Program. This program provides senior leadership consultation 24/7/365 days a year for managing emergency and sensitive situations. The Director of Public Safety and Emergency Management is also responsible for coordinating the Floor Marshal Program as part of fire safety and emergency management. Floor Marshals are campus volunteers trained to safely evacuate people from buildings during an emergency. They are also trained to help people shelter in place and to coordinate their activities with DPS and the D.C. Fire Department. Campus Emergency Plans are being updated by the Director of Public Safety and Emergency Management. During the summer of 2010, the Director worked with the Georgetown University Office of Emergency Management to create Occupant Emergency Plan Information Sheets for all campus buildings. Students, faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to enroll in the HOYA Alert for Georgetown Law in order to receive timely information during emergency situations. We are current using the Blackboard/Connect-Ed emergency notification system which sends system-wide announcements via text/SMS and text-to-speech (TTS) voice messages to alert faculty and students regarding emergency situations. DPS Officers are trained how to utilize the campus buildings public address systems integrated into the fire control rooms. There is also an external campus public address and siren system operated by the DPS Communications Center to alert the campus community about special emergency/all hazard situations. As part of the redundant emergency communications strategy, DPS utilizes bull horns and the public address system located on top of the DPS Police Vehicle to also provide emergency instructions to the campus community. How to Contact UsDepartment of Public Safety
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