Department Services
The college campus is actively patrolled 24 hours a day, seven days per week. Officers patrol the college grounds and buildings by vehicle, foot, and bike patrols.
Department of Safety has an engraver for your personal use to engrave your valuable belongings. Engraving your valuables is important for identification in the event they are stolen. This aids in returning the property to its rightful owner.
Safety and Training Seminars/Awareness courses are given by our Training Officer. The courses include:
- The Department of Safety offers an escort service to enhance students' feelings of safety while walking at night on campus. This service is intended to promote safety by providing an alternative to the campus community, who would have had to walk at night.
- The hours of operation are from dusk to dawn seven days a week. Safety will escort a student, faculty, or visitor from any point on campus, to any point on campus. Dial 6005 and make the request to the dispatcher. You may also utilize the fifteen (15) emergency phones on campus.
- Requests for daytime escorts will be conducted for medical emergencies or if the requester specifically articulates a reason to be fearful for his/her safety.
- Our Officers are certified by the American Red Cross in First-Aid CPR/AED.
- We respond to all medical emergencies on campus and render assistance, which may include:
- Performing emergency CPR, AED or First-Aid
- Contacting an ambulance
- Leading the ambulance to the proper location
- Contacting the school nurse
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- We conduct fire alarm drills, fire safety training, and evaluate the results.
- We respond to all fire alarms on campus in order to:
- Check the area
- Ensure evacuation of the building
- Notify and inform responding fire companies, if necessary
- Clear and reactivate the alsarm
- We respond to maintenance problems, when maintenance is not available.
- If necessary, we will notify emergency maintenance personnel to remedy the problem.
- We are responsible for the locking and unlocking of buildings on campus.
- Security checks of campus buildings occur throughout our shifts.
- We do not assist in opening locked car doors. Unless it is an emergency.
- A portable battery is available from the CIC to jump-start vehicles.
We provide fingerprinting upon request at no charge. Fingerprinting can be done Mon-Fri 8:30am - 3:30pm just call ext. 6005 for an appointment.
- Vehicle permits are issued through our department.
- We are responsible for traffic and parking enforcement and issue citations for violations of either the Messiah College Traffic Code or Pennsylvania Traffic Law.
Bicycle registrations are issued through our department and are free of charge. We require that all bicycles be registered in the event they are lost or stolen.
We are responsible for enforcing Title 18, the Pennsylvania Crimes Code, on campus.
We are responsible for enforcing Title 75, the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code, on campus.
- Our department investigates all crimes that take place on campus.
- These investigations are conducted either by our department or at the direction of the appropriate local township police department.
- It is the student's (victim's) right to choose to have either the Department of Safety investigate or to contact the Police Department.
We perform cursory traffic accident investigations.
