About Campus Safety

The Rollins Office of Campus Safety is currently located in building 412, next to Holt Hall and the Ollie Garage. Service is provided 24-hours a day and is an integral part of the College’s dedication to developing and maintaining a safe and secure campus through the cooperative efforts of many departments and community organizations. The Office of Campus Safety is inclusive of full and part-time safety personnel under the auspices of the Office of the Vice President of Finance & Treasurer. It is not a law enforcement agency and therefore, its members do not have the authority to make arrests or enforce laws.

All officers are professionally trained and State of Florida certified safety officers. The office provides a full range of safety services. These include, but are not limited to, investigating all crimes committed on campus, college policies and procedures, providing crime prevention/ community services programs, enforcing parking policies, and maintaining crowd control for campus special events. The office has a good working relationship with and liaises with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies - such as Winter Park Police Department, Orange County Sheriff’s Office, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement - in implementing and coordinating campus law enforcement operations on campus. Officers are not able to arrest, but local law enforcement officers are called to campus to perform arrests as needed. Officers patrol the campus on foot, and in vehicles. Our office shares radio space with the Winter Park Police, which supplements our working relationships in allowing the Winter Park Police to have faster response to our campus and an open communication between our offices.

Officers have jurisdiction over any Rollins College on-campus and non-campus property. The Office of Campus Safety is staffed 24 hours a day with trained dispatchers and operators who answer calls for service, direct officers, and dispatch emergency services to incidents and fire alarms. Contract security officers are sometimes hired to assist with on-campus events. During their time on duty, they have jurisdiction in the area that they are working, but are not able to arrest or enforce laws.

Campus Safety staff understand the overall academic mission of the College and strive to play a vital role in enhancing that mission. Concern for the community’s well-being, a desire to provide service and assistance whenever possible, and a constant desire to support the academic environment are all factors inherent in the department’s daily operations and policies.

Mission

The Rollins College Campus Safety office actively collaborates with our community to create a safe and secure campus through a combination of reactive, proactive, and educational services. We utilize a combination of innovative practices, ongoing training, and mutually beneficial partnerships to reduce crime and instill confidence in our services. By doing so, we strive for a safe and secure campus where diverse social, cultural, and academic values can develop and prosper.

Values

The Rollins College Campus Safety office is a team of full- time, part-time, and student personnel dedicated to ensuring the safety and security of our campus and community. We are committed to the highest standards of professionalism, ethical behavior, customer service, and conducting ourselves with PRIDE in all we do.

Professionalism We demonstrate our professionalism through our adherence to the highest levels of customer service delivery, crime prevention, and emergency response. We build professionalism through our adherence to the highest levels of customer service delivery, crime prevention, and emergency response. We build professionalism by recruiting talented staff members to work in an environment that encourages teamwork, innovation, collaboration, and inclusion.

Respect Our staff members are our most important asset as we go about achieving our mission. Our success stems from the relationships we build as we interact with the campus community on a daily basis. We foster and preserve trust within the college community by creating partnerships to eliminate crime and improve quality of life. Integrity We expect truth, honesty, and ethical behavior from all of our staff members, nothing less. We uphold our position of trust by maintaining high levels of personal integrity and ethical standards.

Diversity We strive to make every effort to anticipate, plan for, and to respond to the needs of an ever-changing community. We appreciate the similarities and differences we have with each member of the campus community. We recognize that different viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds are key in meeting the unique needs of our community. Our practice is to seek input, counsel, and talents from a wide range of sources in our efforts to safeguard the campus. Excellence We strive to be a model non-sworn, higher education public safety through our commitment to collaboration, communication, education, and teamwork.

Vision

The Rollins College Campus Safety office aspires to be recognized as a national model in the field of non-sworn, higher education safety. Our commitment to this goal supports the campus community’s pursuit of academic and research goals in a safe and secure environment.