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Managing Campus Security Programs in the 80's

NCJ Number
74312
Journal
Campus Law Enforcement Journal Volume: 10 Issue: 6 Dated: (November-December 1980) Pages: 20-27
Author(s)
J P Kimble
Date Published
1980
Length
8 pages
Annotation
The paper discusses campus security program management for the 1980's in the areas of parking, crime reduction and risk management, campus safety, key control, security department organization, personnel practices, community involvement, and funding.
Abstract
Changes in campus life, organization and funding during the 1980's will require a managerial approach to campus security programs flexible enough to meet the new demands. Such an approach encompasses a written statement of departmental purpose, cooperative establishment of specific goals to implement the statement of purpose, program review procedures, written appraisals of each program area, forecasts and recommendations for the future, and establishment of goal-related programs with specific evaluation methods. Anticipated changes such as the energy problem which will compound campus parking problems, will directly affect the campus security program. Crime reduction and risk management training programs can help meet increasing security demands caused by a decreasing staff in times of austerity. The same austerity challenges should force changes to more flexible organizational arrangements in campus security agencies. Moreover, the campus security program must enlarge its responsibility to include the entire campus environment. Dwindling public funding will force procedural and attitudinal changes in campus property accountability. Declining enrollment and increasing competition will force campus educational reorganization and corresponding security organizational changes; the security manager must assume an advocate role for the college in the community. Security managers must develop approaches to budgeting, goal-related programs, and continuous review and innovation.