Campus Safety

 

As a Messiah student, your well-being is important to us.  That’s why we are committed to providing you with a safe and secure learning and living environment.

 

To help ensure your safety on campus, the College maintains a Department of Safety. This professional campus safety and security department consists of:

 

• 14 full-time professional staff
• 3 part-time professional staff
• 3 dispatchers
• student safety escorts
• various support personnel

 

The department of safetyactively patrols the campus 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Officers patrol the grounds and buildings by vehicle, on foot, and by bike patrols. The department is not a police force and is not authorized by law to carry firearms or exercise powers of arrest but all officers carry radios and are trained in:

 

• emergency medical response
• CPR
• first aid
• crisis intervention
• crime prevention
• sexual assault response
• human relations skills

 

Safety officers perform the following duties:

 

• enforcement of College policies and parking codes
• campus security patrols
• escort service
• emergency response

 

A 24-hour dispatch center in the Eisenhower Campus Center enables immediate contact with a safety officer.

 

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