Spotlight on Campus Safety Director of the Year Finalist Edgar Rodriguez
Check out some of this Director of the Year finalist’s top accomplishments, as well as a photo gallery of him and his department.
Congratulations to Quinnipiac University Chief of Public Safety Edgar Rodriguez for being named one of this year’s Campus Safety Director of the Year finalists.
Here are some of his notable achievements:
- Transformed the campus security department that had old equipment, policies and procedures to a model public safety department.
- Implemented the following programs: Community Policing Initiative, Community Policing Advisory Board, Criminal Justice Club, Community Outreach, Executive Dignitary Protection for Institutional Events, Coffee with Public Safety, Walk & Talk (Bike Patrol), Residential Life Fire and more.
- Updated or added dispatch software, phones, laptops, video surveillance, radios, emergency notification system, call boxes, body cameras and more.
The Director of the Year winners and runners-up will be announced this summer at Campus Safety Conference East, being held in Bethesda, Maryland, July 12-14. For more information, visit CampusSafetyConference.com, email events@campussafetymagazine.com or call (855) 351-0927.
Read about the other finalists.
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About the Author
Robin Hattersley, Editor-in-Chief
Robin has been covering the security and campus law enforcement industries since 1998 and is a specialist in school, university and hospital security, public safety and emergency management, as well as emerging technologies and systems integration. She joined CS in 2005 and has authored award-winning editorial on campus law enforcement and security funding, officer recruitment and retention, access control, IP video, network integration, event management, crime trends, the Clery Act, Title IX compliance, sexual assault, dating abuse, emergency communications, incident management software and more. Robin has been featured on national and local media outlets and was formerly associate editor for the trade publication Security Sales & Integration. She obtained her undergraduate degree in history from California State University, Long Beach.
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