Higher Education Security Plan

Our higher education security plan focuses on the most important thing—protecting everyone on your campus including students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Understanding the unique environment that each school represents, our higher education security methodology recognizes the need for an open and friendly atmosphere while also providing a safe and secure place for students to thrive.

How Can I Make My School Safer?
You need to proactively address security vulnerabilities that expose the campus to criminal or violent behavior. We’ll help you look at your current environment and what you need to do to achieve maximum school security, safety, and emergency capabilities in:
• Security personnel
• Technical security systems
• Physical security measures
• Security plans, policies, and procedures
• Emergency preparedness

An assessment is an important part of the higher education security plan. Like all assessments, a school or university assessment will help us establish a baseline so that we can offer considerations regarding improving administrative, procedural, and operational security controls. In order to protect everyone on your campus, you’ll discreetly enhance the level of security at your institution while reducing the level of risk.

Beyond assessing physical, technical, procedural, and personnel security, you also must have threat assessment capabilities, which is another key component of a successful school security program and a part of your higher education security plan. Threat assessment shows you how well you identify, assess, and manage individuals within and outside the institution who could be on a pathway to violence. After you identify individuals exhibiting behaviors of concern, the plan will outline how to continue the threat assessment process by assembling a team of both in-house and outsourced security professionals. These experts—forensic psychologists, social workers, school and mental health counselors, residential advisors, campus police officers, and others—bring different skills and unique perspectives to threat assessment. If you don’t have a team or haven’t established your process, we can design a program and connect you to professionals who can help.

You don’t have to wait for the next school year to prioritize creating and maintaining a safe environment for your people. Contact us today to get started.