Clackamas Community College’s campus safety officers are being decommission from the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
Enrique Farrera, classified association
president, said, “For the campus culture, yes
it’ s true, you don’t want a patrol officer or a state
trooper on campus, but the police officers that
we have are part of the college culture. They have
been here for many years and they understand
how to work and interact. They have adapted
their mentality. Their policing experience has
always been within the college community.”
There seem to be m any questions and few
answers with regards to campus safety. However,
Huckestein said he plans to keep students and
faculty informed. “There’re a lot of different
ways we are going to be communicating. Part of
what we are looking at is how we do drills and
training. We want to use standardized protocols.
We are looking into doing standard protocols that
are already being used in the Kl2 district. So if we
determine that that’ s the protocol that we use
for lock down, lock out, evacuate and shelter in
place, then we will do trainings across the entire
campus to train staff and train students.”
Lori Hall, CCC spokeswoman, listed additional
methods of communication by saying, "We’ll use
social media. We can use the student portal, we
can have videos and we can have demonstrations
in the student center, so there’re lots of avenues
we can use.”
“ Their primary
responsibility is to make
sure that they interact
with students and make
sure that they feel safe”
-Jim Huckestein
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