Security Awareness and Crime Prevention - Annual Security and Fire Safety Report

Introduction to Self-Defense

In response to requests from the community, the Department of Campus Safety now offers free, basic self-defense classes for students, staff and faculty of all genders. These courses go over basic self-defense and risk-avoidance techniques.

This class is perfect for community members who want to feel prepared to defend themselves if necessary.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

Frequency: Offered upon request

Method: In-person class

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Sexual assault, robbery, assault, risk reduction

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

Mace in Your Face

45 minutes

Participants will learn about the legal aspects and medical considerations for carrying and using pepper spray or mace for their own personal safety.

The course includes practice with inert spray canisters.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

Frequency: Offered upon request

Method: In-person class

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Sexual assault, robbery, assault, risk reduction

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

DCS Crime Prevention Presentations*

The Department of Campus Safety’s Community Resource Officer conducts in-person presentations on preventing and reporting crime.

Promoted by email, regular meetings with student and community groups.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community

Frequency: Offered upon request

Method: In-person presentations or virtual online

Awareness & Prevention Targets: All crimes including active-shooter response; crime prevention, bystander intervention, risk reduction.

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

Safe-Walk Program

Walk through campus with staff from the Department of Campus Safety, ��app Facilities and interested campus community members, to identify areas in need of improved lighting, landscaping, and other modifications that could make campus travel safer.

Promoted through social media and email advertising.

Audience: Students, Staff, Campus community members

Frequency: Annually

Method: In-person discussion and tour

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Sexual assault, robbery, assault, safe routes, crime prevention, crime reporting, risk reduction

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

DCS Security Escorts

On request Campus Safety Officer escort for anyone on campus, from and to any campus location, provided by the Department of Campus Safety (DCS) with a call to the DCS Communications Center.

Promoted through student and parent orientations, online and printed materials.

Audience: Students, Staff

Frequency: As requested, year-round, 24-hours per day

Method: In-person safety escort

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Sexual assault, robbery, assault, risk reduction

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

Campus Safety Anonymous Crime Tip Line*

24-hour hotline

303-871-3130 (1-3130) from the Department of Campus Safety, providing an avenue for the campus community to report information about a crime or suspected crime in a confidential manner.

Promoted through orientations and website.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community

Frequency: Ongoing

Method: Phone resource

Awareness & Prevention Targets: All interpersonal violence and sex-related crimes; all other persons and property crimes; bystander intervention, risk reduction, crime reporting.

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-3130 (1-3130)

The Department of Campus Safety Website*

The campus safety website with Clery Act information and resources, crime prevention resources, crime prevention education and opportunities, crime reporting information and resources.

Promoted through social media, orientations, and print marketing.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, Community

Frequency: Ongoing

Method: Web-based resource

Awareness & Prevention Targets: All crimes; crime reporting, risk reduction

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

��app Alert*

Email and text emergency notification system. Promoted through orientations, media, print and online marketing.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

Frequency: Periodic, as incidents indicate

Method: Periodic, as incidents indicate

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Emergency notification, including fires, bomb threats, active shooter or dangerous person, gas leaks, hazardous weather

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

Campus Crime Alerts*

Email, social media and web bulletins with information about Clery crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat n Clery-reportable property.

Packaged with crime prevention and personal protection tips, and campus and community resources for victims of crime.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

Frequency: Periodic, as indicated by incidents

Method: Email direct to all ��app addresses, web, Twitter and Facebook

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Clery crimes, risk reduction, bystander intervention, crime reporting

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

��app Campus Safety/Community Security Advisories*

Email, social media and web bulletins with information about crime, security or safety trends, advice, prevention strategies, or incidents that may not pose a serious or ongoing threat.

Audience: Students, Employees

Frequency: Periodic, as needed

Method: Email to all ��app accounts, web, Twitter, Facebook

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Sexual assault, robbery, assault, burglary, theft, drug/alcohol crimes, bystander intervention, risk reduction, crime reporting

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

Active Shooter Response Training (Are You Prepared)*

1 hour

Participants will learn concerning behaviors exhibited by potential shooters, a brief history, what to do during an active shooter incident, and what ��app and City response will be.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, ��app Community

Frequency: Offered upon request

Method: In-person class and virtual online. In addition to in person trainings, employees are required to watch the Run, Hide, Fight Video on Canvas

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Safety and security, crime reporting, murder, assault, harassment, bystander intervention, risk reduction

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

Emergency Response Team Training & Certification

This is a volunteer program open to all ��app faculty and staff. Upon joining participants are provided with training in how to respond to basic emergencies and are assigned to their building’s Emergency Response Team.

Team Members are given a certificate and identification vest upon completion of initial training.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

Frequency: At least once per academic term, and as requested by groups

Method: In-person class

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Safety and security, crime reporting

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

Safety/Risk Assessments

The Department of Campus Safety’s Manager of Emergency Preparedness and Fire Safety conducts physical and office site security assessments for all ��app department’s workplace environments.

Assessment includes information on best practices and industry standards in the area of workplace safety and response to emergency situations.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

Frequency: Offered upon request

Method: In-person class

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Sexual assault, robbery, assault, risk reduction

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

Standard Response Protocol (Ricks and Fisher)

Program targeted for k-12 students and employees that encompasses all wide scale emergencies, divided into four different actions to take during emergencies (lockdown, lockout, evacuate, shelter in place).

Audience: K-12 (Students, Staff)

Frequency: Once a year for each facility

Method: In-person training

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Safety and security

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

First Aid/CPR/AED Training

Participants will be trained in adult, child, and infant CPR, choking response, and use of an Automated External Defibrillator.

Certifications are through the American Heart Association and last 2 years.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

Frequency: Offered upon request

Method: In-person class

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Life safety

Primary Sponsor: Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

New Employee Orientation*

HR delivers New Employee Orientation and provides an overview of the services the Department of Campus Safety provides.

Audience: New Faculty & Staff

Frequency: The first and third Monday of each month

Method: In-person meeting or virtual online

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Overview of the Department of Campus Safety functions

Primary Sponsor: Human Resources & Department of Campus Safety 303-871-2334 (1-2334)

Resident Assistant Development Institute – Responding to Crime and Gender-Based Violence

In-person training for Resident Assistants (RA) employees designed to identify discrimination, harassment, and gender-based violence (sexual assault, domestic/dating violence and stalking).

This course defines prohibited conduct, teaches RAs about their obligation to report incidents, and information about how to respond and support students who have experienced these behaviors.

Audience: Resident Assistants

Frequency: Annual

Method: In-Person interactive training

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Discrimination, harassment, gender-based violence, mandatory reporting

Primary Sponsor: Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX, and Department of Campus Safety, and the Health and Counseling Center

Bias Incident Response Team*

��app’s Bias Incident Response Team (or “BIRT”) is an internal working group tasked to coordinate campus response to bias incidents that occur within the ��app community.

BIRT does not investigate, adjudicate or otherwise participate in judicial/legal processes, but provides support to individuals and populations affected by such incidents.

Audience: Faculty, Staff

Frequency: As requested

Method: In-person meeting and electronic communication recommending programming and responses as necessary

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Safety and security

Primary Sponsor: Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX, 303-871-7016

Title IX and Equal Opportunity Policies and Procedures*

This required course identifies discrimination, harassment, and gender-based violence (sexual assault, domestic/dating violence and stalking) as prohibited conduct.

Defines what behavior constitutes gender-based violence under federal law, describes students’ options for supportive measures and reporting prohibited conduct under the ��app’s procedures.

Audience: Students

Frequency: As requested

Method: In person meeting or virtual online

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Sexual violence prevention and adjudication

Primary Sponsor: Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX

Faculty-Staff Hiring Guidelines*

In-person or module-based training for hiring managers about how to conduct an Equal Opportunity hiring process.

This course defines permissible and impermissible questions to ask applicants in the hiring process, as well as, permissible and impermissible grounds on which to consider for making a hiring decision.

Audience: Hiring Managers

Frequency: Offered year-round

Method: In-person interactive training or online interactive module

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Discrimination, equal opportunity, hiring practices

Primary Sponsor: Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX

Managing Bias*

Online training for faculty, staff, and student workers designed to identify bias incidents and how that affects the workplace.

This course defines terms such as discrimination, harassment, bias, microaggressions, and seeks to promote awareness about employees’ behaviors and how to manage their own biases.

Audience: Employees

Frequency: Offered year-round

Method: Online interactive training

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Bias, discrimination, harassment, microaggressions

Primary Sponsor: Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX and Human Resources & Inclusive Community

International Program Leaders Orientation*

Experts from ��app have developed an online training, via Canvas, in order to present to staff and faculty overseeing students on short term trips abroad on health, safety and security issues and crime prevention and Clery Reporting.

Website: /international-travel/pre-departure-orientations

Audience: ��app Staff and Faculty working as Program Leaders with students during short term academic trips abroad

Frequency: Periodically throughout year, and at least every calendar year in which the Program Leader takes students abroad.

Method: Online via Canvas and in person as needed to supplement

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Online via Canvas and in person as needed to supplement

Primary Sponsor: Enterprise Risk Management

Good Neighbor Community Meetings

Meetings are open to community neighbors outside of the ��app community. The meeting addresses safety concerns and new construction projects that are happening at ��app.

This also is an open forum to discuss any concerns the community may have pertaining to ��app.

Audience: Community neighbors outside of the ��app community

Frequency: Quarterly

Method: In response to COVID-19, meetings were adjusted to be held virtually

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Safety and security, drug and alcohol crimes, crime reporting, risk reduction

Primary Sponsor: Office of Government Relations and Community Affairs

Residence Hall Mandatory Floor Meetings

Housing & Residential Education (HRE) professional staff develop a facilitation guide and provide training for Resident Assistants.

For students living on campus, mandatory floor meetings are scheduled on the day of move-in with residence hall staff and covers critical safety and security practices and expectations for living within a residential community.

Audience: Students living in a residential community

Frequency: Once, fall quarter on the day of move-in

Method: In-person meeting

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Incident and crime reporting and responsibilities; increasing awareness of potential safety or security concerns and critical incidents including, but not limited to, sexual assault, interpersonal violence, robbery, assault, drug/alcohol crimes, burglary, theft.

Primary Sponsor: Housing and Residential Education (HRE)

RA Development Institute (RDI)

Housing & Residential Education (HRE) professional staff develops a comprehensive training for all Resident Assistants that covers critical safety and security practices and expectations of student leaders living within a residential community.

This training occurs prior to the arrival as residential students and covers incident and crime reporting responsibilities including, but not limited to, critical safety and security practices, and expectations for residence hall and apartments communities’ student staff, expectations for students living within a residential community, and mandatory (responsible) employee responsibilities.

Audience: All

Frequency: Annually, prior to the beginning of the fall quarter; individually as off-cycle staff are on-boarded

Method: In-person training

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Incident and crime reporting and responsibilities; potential safety or security concerns including, but not limited to, sexual assault, interpersonal violence, robbery, assault, drug/ alcohol crimes, burglary, theft, crime and risk mitigation; mandatory reporting responsibilities

Primary Sponsor: Housing and Residential Education (HRE)

International Student Orientation

During orientation, representatives from ISSS provide information about safety and security on campus and around Denver, as well as information about avoiding scams that target international students.

Additionally, information is provided about health services and resources for both physical and mental health.

Audience: Incoming international students

Frequency: One large orientation at the start of the Fall term and three smaller orientations at the start of each quarter

Method: A mix of in person presentation, handouts, and pre-arrival information

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Health and Counseling resources, Personal safety/security and Property protection in Denver and on campus. Awareness of common safety concerns and fraud. Crime prevention and reporting, risk reduction

Primary Sponsor: ISSS

��app Campus Shuttle

Fixed-route van service operating 7 a.m.- 7 p.m. during the academic year on routes around campus. Free to students and employees.

Shuttle locations are viewable in real time online at /parking/mobility/campus-shuttle

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

Frequency: Year-round

Method: Direct intervention ride service

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Drug/alcohol crimes, sexual assault, robbery, assault, crime prevention, risk reduction

Primary Sponsor: Parking and Mobility Services, 303-871-3210

Bicycle Registration*

Optional bike registration for all bikes on ��app campus, through the Parking and Mobility Services. Includes theft prevention tips, and low-cost bike U-locks.

Promoted by print and online marketing and orientations.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

Frequency: Ongoing

Method: Registration program and marketing outreach

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Theft, crime prevention, crime reporting

Primary Sponsor: Parking and Mobility Services, 303-871-3210

Crisis Assessment Risk Evaluation Behavioral Intervention Team (C.A.R.E.)*

The C.A.R.E. team serves as the centralized body for discussion and action regarding students exhibiting aberrant, dangerous, or threatening behavior that might impact the safety or well-being of the campus community.

The C.A.R.E. team takes a proactive, objective, supportive, and collaborative approach to the prevention, identification, assessment, intervention, management of, and coordinated response to situations and behaviors that may be disruptive or pose a risk of harm. The C.A.R.E. team is founded on the principles of early intervention and proactive engagement to prevent violence and provide supportive interventions and services.

Audience: Students

Frequency: Weekly team meetings; assessments as needed/requested

Method: In-person meeting and electronic communication recommending programming and responses as necessary

Awareness & Prevention Targets: Safety and security, health and counseling, violence prevention

Primary Sponsor: Dean of Students Office, 303-871-4261

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Security Awareness and Crime Prevention Education Programs

Introduction to Self-Defense

Mace in Your Face

45 minutes

DCS Crime Prevention Presentations*

Safe-Walk Program

DCS Security Escorts

Campus Safety Anonymous Crime Tip Line*

24-hour hotline

The Department of Campus Safety Website*

���app Alert*

Campus Crime Alerts*

���app Campus Safety/Community Security Advisories*

Active Shooter Response Training (Are You Prepared)*

1 hour

Emergency Response Team Training & Certification

Safety/Risk Assessments

Standard Response Protocol (Ricks and Fisher)

First Aid/CPR/AED Training

New Employee Orientation*

Resident Assistant Development Institute – Responding to Crime and Gender-Based Violence

Bias Incident Response Team*

Title IX and Equal Opportunity Policies and Procedures*

Faculty-Staff Hiring Guidelines*

Managing Bias*

International Program Leaders Orientation*

Good Neighbor Community Meetings

Residence Hall Mandatory Floor Meetings

RA Development Institute (RDI)

International Student Orientation

���app Campus Shuttle

Bicycle Registration*

Crisis Assessment Risk Evaluation Behavioral Intervention Team (C.A.R.E.)*

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��app Alert*

��app Campus Safety/Community Security Advisories*

��app Campus Shuttle