NCJ Number
199263
Journal
Campus Safety Journal Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Dated: February 2003 Pages: 34-36
Editor(s)
Tom Nelson
Date Published
February 2003
Length
3 pages
Annotation
This article describes methods of properly accumulating and managing campus security information.
Abstract
The campus security professional is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and sharing information concerning criminal incidents and general student calls for service such as alarms and accidents. The author proposes that software is the true key to organizing and interpreting information, providing fast, effective results, and providing the ability to identify trends, conduct pattern analysis, and data mining. The security police for the campus of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, is described as encountering 7,000 incidents per year. The advanced security management information system used by the University Police Service is described. The software used provides the ability to do in-depth searches, analysis, and reports enabling pattern analysis of any area on campus or spot specific trends at any building. The University has also integrated the local City of London Police reporting system into its process. Fully automated dispatching systems provide complete logs of all incidents and can be linked directly with an advanced security management information system. This linkage provides a complete information management system for security police. It is noted that this system is no longer a luxury but a necessity for tracking and analyzing real time security and safety data.