With the recent shooing that was tied to the local Texas High School, many parents in the community began to worry about the safety of their children in high school and college. Although some of the concerns are gun safety in school andcrime on campus, what happens if something like this happened on our campus? How do we notify students of an emergency? Texas A&M University Texarkana hasn\u2019t had an active shooting because of the rules set in place and the university police on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gun safety in school is becoming a big issue in America. A parent\u2019s worst nightmare is to hear that there\u2019s been a shooting at their child\u2019s school. Gun violence has been affecting our schools in America for the past decade. A few examples of gut-wrenching school shootings are Sandy Hooks Elementary, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and Columbine the worst mass school shooting in history. The recent shooting tied to Texas High School makes many of the locals uncomfortable. Thankfully, Texas A&M University of Texarkana has notencountered this problem because of the strict rules set in place and the on-duty police officers on campus for our protection atall times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After reviewing the crime on campus, the presence of UPD at Texas A&M University Texarkana has kept crime very low. This campus does a daily crime log not just the Clery Report,but an actual crime log that identifies the nature of the crime,location, date, and time. It also includes the time and date the crime was reported to TAMUT University Police Department. The daily crime log is located in the Central Plant in the University Police Department main office and it\u2019s available for review by request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If something like that happened on our campus. Texas A&M University Texarkana has an emergency management strategy in place to protect the lives and well-being of its students and staff. They deploy qualified university personnel in a timely and effective manner in the event of an emergency. The emergency management plan is designed to protect the lives of students, staff, and faculty by deploying trained university personnel who are trained in light search and rescue, First Aid, CPR, A.D., (automated external defibrillator) and fire extinguisher training in the event of an emergency<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Texas A&M University provides University Police Departments on campus for the protection of the student\u2019s staff and faculty. They also provide a private crime report online so anyone can report a crime or suspicion of a crime anonymously. If you know someone who has a weapon on campus, pleasespeak up because you could save lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If a shooter is on the loose on campus, call 911 immediately. Texas A&M University Texarkana has severalmethods for quickly delivering information to the university. The institution employs rave mobile safety, which is an emergency notification system that allows it to instantly convey health and safety emergency information via phone, email, and text message. The community will be notified via webpages by the director of communications or a web design professional in the IT department. If there is an immediate threat to a student’s health or safety, Texas A&M will immediately alert the university’s community. This will ensure that the message reaches the whole student body in a matter of seconds. These are also the very things that prevent shootings from taking place on our campus. . This is a great system to implement so everyone can know what\u2019s going on, they should have an escape plan or an active shooter drill for students. I asked some students what they are supposed to do if we had an active shooter on campus and many of them said they didn\u2019t know or they run one student said they would fight them off. Although this is a safe school Many students need to be aware and trained on what to do if this ever happens on campus for the safety of our students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the recent shooing that was tied to the local Texas High School, many parents in the community began to worry about the safety of their children in high school and college. Although some of the concerns are gun safety in school andcrime on campus, what happens if something like this happened on our campus? How do we notify students … Continue reading