Bob Roberts
Chief of Police
West Virginia University (WVU)
Morgantown, W.V.
Notable Achievements:
- Wrote a new emergency plan for the university, including special appendices for the stadium and arena. Also created building emergency plan templates, presentations and training. This program was the only higher education program to reach the semi-finalist stage for the IACP Webber-Seavey Award
- Served as a panelist at the West Virginia Homeland Security Summit
- Worked with human resources to improve recruiting and standards, and to raise the departmental pay grade compensation so that it is commensurate with local agencies
- Currently pursuing the first command and control center on campus. He has also partnered with the school’s purchasing department and private industry on a proposal for security technology across campus
- Achieved multiple improvements despite having a budget that is the lowest per student when compared to other similar institutions. Department’s budget per officer is, in some cases, one third the size of other comparable campuses
- According to the Clery 2007 crime statistics, WVU has a lower rate of violent crime, property crime and crime in every specific offense than 10 national peer institutions and any of the universities in the Big East
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