Announcing the Contenders
Bernard Buckner
Executive Director of Campus Safety
Cleveland State University (CSU)
Cleveland
Notable Achievements:
- Hosted a series of meetings to promote cooperation among neighbors and established a fax/E-mail tree to share information among Campus Watch, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Police, MetroHealth Police, CMHA Police Department, Cuyahoga Community College Police, County Protective Services, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District Police, Case Western Reserve University Police Department, Cleveland Clinic Police, Block by Block, St. Vincent Quad, Plain Dealer Security, St. Vincent Hospital and Partnership for a Safer Cleveland
- Initiated the university chemical inventory system
- Conducted active shooter response drills and tabletop exercises with the Ohio Department of Emergency Preparedness and the Ohio Highway Patrol
- Petitioned Cuyahoga County to designate CSU as a secondary public safety answering point (PSAP)
- Updated CSU’s emergency call system, blue light telephones, crime mapping and radio communications
- Worked with the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, RTA, CMHA to link CSU exterior cameras so CSU can share live video with other law enforcement agencies; is conducting a field trial where video/mobile data terminals in patrol vehicles will be deployed, hopefully leading to greater access to video to better assist responding officers
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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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