Chief Stephen Lopez discusses some of the key ways in which campus police/security are having to adapt to handle the “new normal” resulting from the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This includes discussions on how we keep our campus police (and security) forces safe, ranging from altered workplace practices, to training and personal protective equipment.

We make decisions daily about whether to act based upon our morals and values or surrender them based on fear, bias, indifference or some other factor. But everyone, including faculty, staff, students, safety directors, law enforcement, and administrators, have a responsibility to speak up.

Dive deeper into how police training and response has evolved over the past decade and the continued efforts, drills, equipment, and overall communication that must continue to evolve.