Current Police Information
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Annual Department Service Awards
Annually, the police department recognizes a police officer and civilian employee who have served the department with distinction by awarding the Officer of the Year and the Support Services Award. The recipients of these awards have shown great commitment to their duties and have served with outstanding loyalty and professionalism.
Kinetic Global Personal Safety App
NOW AVAILABLE!
Visit angelo.edu/safety-app to download app.
Student Life and University Police have partnered to bring an exciting phone app to ASU called Kinetic Global. The app is available at no cost to students, faculty, and staff. Primary student funding for Kinetic Global is possible through the Student Organization Leadership Fund.
Kinetic Global is a personal safety mobile application for iPhone and Android. While you are walking around campus or about your daily lives, you can arm the app by placing your thumb on your smartphone screen. To initiate immediate emergency response, all you have to do is remove your thumb from the screen. If something happens to you, authorities can be dispatched within seconds. A hands-free timer mode can be used for longer activities such as jogging, carrying books or shopping bags or walking through a parking lot to find your car.
Not only does Kinetic Global alert a 24-hour call center during an emergency, it also provides the call center and up to seven chosen lifelines with real-time GPS location and tracking. This feature helps responding emergency personnel pinpoint your exact location and expedites their response.
Angelo State was one of the first universities in the country to offer this phone app to its campus community.
Learn more about this exciting phone app.
Warnings
Warnings will be issued by University Police, based on circumstances or events that affect the safety of the campus community. These types of incidents necessitate issuing a campus warning:
- Severe weather, including thunderstorms, tornados, snow/ice storms, flash floods or wildfires, which may require people to seek shelter or take other actions.
- Evacuations are normally implemented due to a threat emanating from within a facility, such as a gas leak, and may necessitate the evacuation of a larger area or the entire campus.
- Campus closures are implemented as a result of inclement weather or some other unforeseeable event that disrupts campus operations.
- Special alerts are issued for unusual circumstances or events that impact the campus community, such as a street detour or a parking lot closure.
Quick Tips On How to Respond To An Active Shooting Incident
The Oregon mall shooting on December 11th once again highlights the real dangers of being in the middle of an active shooter incident. Sadly, we want to use the Oregon tragedy to remind the campus community how they can better prepare themselves. Do you know what to do if found in the middle of an active shooter incident? There are three main actions you can take:
RUN!
If you can escape safely, RUN! It is important when out in public to take notice of where your closest exits are.
HIDE!
If escape is not an option, HIDE! Find solid objects to hide behind. If possible, find a safe room and barricade yourself. Close blinds, turn off lights, silence cell phones and get as close to the floor as you can. Give the impression the room is empty and unoccupied.
FIGHT!
If running or hiding is not an option, your last resort may be FIGHT! Working together or alone, use aggression and improvised weapons to fight off and disable the shooter.
IMPORTANT:
How you respond to approaching police is as critical as how you respond to the shooter! Police are entering a very chaotic scene and have no idea who the shooter might be!
WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT ARRIVES:
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When law enforcement reaches you, do not run at them or make sudden movements.
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The priority of the first responders will be to identify the shooter. Law enforcement will need to ensure that you are not the shooter.
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Do not scream, yell, point, or wave your arms.
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Do not hold anything in your hands that could be mistaken for a weapon (including cell phones).
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Be quiet and compliant.
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Show the officers your empty hands and follow their instructions.
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Give the number of shooters.
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Give the location and physical description of the shooter.
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Give the number and types of weapons.
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When it is safe to do so, you will be given instructions as to how to safely exit your location.
Alertus Desktop™
Alertus Desktop™ is an enterprise software solution for overriding computer displays across a network system with critical alert messages. When an alert is initiated, targeted client computers are overridden with a full screen alert containing information regarding the nature of the campus emergency. Recipients simply click an acknowledgment button at the bottom of their screen to close the alert and simultaneously provide acknowledgement to campus safety officials who originated the notification.
The ability of Alertus Desktop™ to “push” emergency messages out to networked PCs will further assist campus emergency officials in disseminating important information and alerting individuals to specific campus emergencies. The new feature should be fully implemented and operational in early Spring 2013.
2020 Security and Fire Safety Report
$500 REWARD
New 911 Lifeline Law Intended to Save Lives
SAFE. SECURE. FREE
To start entering your items, go to the Report It website or view the Report IT flyer for more information.
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Shots Fired on Campus Video
Two words we hope we never hear on our campus.
To view the video:
- Log into RamPort
- Navigate to the Campus Life page
- Select the Shots Fired on Campus Training video link in the Health and Safety section
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