First Shift
The Day Shift Security Officers are dedicated to providing a high level of service to our university community. In addition to staffing the Chazen Museum of Art, Day Shift officers provide a wide range of services. They assist campus community members with lock outs, provide assistance to fire department personnel responding to fire alarms, accompany police officers responding to calls, and establish perimeters and assist with crowd control in emergencies. Security Officers frequently provide information and directions to visitors, staff and students on campus.
Security Officers provide basic security services for over three hundred buildings on campus. Services consist of locking and unlocking buildings and responding to a variety of calls for service. Officers check for unauthorized persons, and are alert for security discrepancies and malfunctions of mechanical equipment.
Crime prevention and crime prevention education are also major roles of the Day Shift Security Officers. Crime prevention surveys are completed upon request, or when there are numerous security discrepancies for a particular building. Surveys are also completed when there is an increase in criminal activity in a particular building or area.
Second Shift
The Second Shift Security Officers are responsible for providing security services from 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. These security services include locking the many campus buildings on a daily basis. Security officers must be familiar with every aspect of each building, to assist the occupants and to provide services to emergency personnel and trades people who respond to the buildings. Security officers are the resident experts regarding building layout and the methods for resetting alarms.
When a person is locked out of a building, room or laboratory, the security officer will respond to allow entry, checking to ensure the person has authorization to enter. When persons without authorization are found in the building, the officer will identify and escort the individuals out of the building. If the security officer believes an illegal activity is occurring, they will call the police, reporting all pertinent information to the police officer.
Second Shift Security Officers check their assigned buildings inside and out for problems such as: unlocked doors, exit lights burned out, appropriate lighting, cracked or broken glazing. As they discover problems, they initiate the appropriate corrective process. An important aspect is the interior building check, where they check interior doors for security, look for safety hazards, and check for fire, floods or other hazards.
Third Shift
Second Shift Security Officers check their assigned buildings inside and out for problems such as: unlocked doors, exit lights burned out, appropriate lighting, cracked or broken glazing. As they discover problems, they initiate the appropriate corrective process. An important aspect is the interior building check, where they check interior doors for security, look for safety hazards, and check for fire, floods or other hazards.
Third Shift Security Officers spend much of their time actively checking the exterior of buildings for faulty lighting, broken windows, open or unlocked doors, and mechanical problems. They often discover problems early-on, and initiate the repair process, potentially saving thousands of dollars in costly damage. They also patrol the interior of campus buildings looking for security and safety discrepancies. Third shift security officers are responsible for ensuring campus emergency telephones, inside the buildings and elevators, are working properly.
Health Sciences Center (HSC)
Security staff from the University of Wisconsin Police Department are responsible for providing security for the Health Sciences Center (HSC). The Health Sciences Center is comprised of the Waisman Center, the Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) , Rennebohm School of Pharmacy, University labs and clinics located within the UW Hospital, and the Interdisciplinary Resource Center (IRC) which is currently under construction. Officers routinely patrol these areas, being watchful for ways to improve the physical security as well as looking for safety hazards. Officers assigned to HSC have an office in the HSLC where they are available to answer security questions and issue access badges. The officers are trained to backup security officers at the UW Hospital if they should require assistance.
