Let's Talk UNLV

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Speaker 1 0:20
Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode here on Let's Talk K, U, N, V, 91.5, and I have a special guest today. I actually have several special guests from UPD. We have Lieutenant Ryan woman, we have Officer Darren Franklin, and we have Sergeant Michael lamb. Hello guys, how are you?

Speaker 2 0:38
How you doing? Doing really well. Doing great. Thanks. All right, not

Speaker 1 0:42
a problem. I'm happy you'd be here. You know, we had a retreat a couple of weeks ago, and the student was so hyped about officer Franklin, so I figured we'd have updating here today for the podcast. So as I start all of the shows, I would like to know your origin story. How did you end up here at UNLV? And we can start with Officer Franklin, okay,

Speaker 3 1:04
well, I actually started out. I was with the Department of Public Safety the DPS Academy. I went into highway patrol, and for me, I was looking around, and this seemed to me a better fit. I just love being out with the public. I love communicating with with faculty, staff members. And I figured, you want LAPD. This is pretty intriguing. And I came over here it was about three and a half years ago, and I've been loving it ever since,

Speaker 2 1:32
excellent, excellent. Yeah. So I'm actually an alumni of both College of Southern Nevada and UNLV, and my my working career prior to this was was all in the construction industry. My dad owns a business in construction, so that was kind of the easy route for me. One of the last projects that I did in construction, I was a project manager. We built a big movie theater, and I kind of had this epiphany that, you know, construction was fun. I got some good contacts, built some good things, but I didn't really get that sense of fulfillment from that work. I had a lot of friends in law enforcement at the time that were always kind of pitching this as a good career for me, and then, incidentally, through that last job that I had in construction, one of my colleagues had a friend who worked at our department and connected us, and then the rest was history. From there, joined UNLV, PD at the time now University Police Department, and haven't looked back since. Really enjoy working here. Excellent,

Speaker 1 2:31
excellent. Thank you. Lieutenant Wilton, and how did you end up here? Officer lamb, how did you end up here? Sergeant lamb, yes,

Speaker 4 2:38
so when they talk about law enforcement being a calling. I think it truly was for me. It started as a young age. I always used to drive by police officers on traffic stops and always wonder, what are they doing over there. Looks so interesting, so always intrigued with the job. But as life has, it took me in different directions. I was actually in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Recovery field for about 16 years before becoming a police officer, which actually prepared me quite a bit for this position, and I went into it as a second career. Went into police academy at 36 graduated when I was 37 years old, and I've been here for about five years, loving it. Yeah. Okay,

Speaker 1 3:16
cool. Are you guys all native of Nevada?

Speaker 3 3:19
Depends on what Native is. If it's if it's like 11 years, does that mean native?

Unknown Speaker 3:25
Anyone born and raised here, not more and

Speaker 2 3:27
been here for 35 years? From what state? Arizona, Arizona,

Unknown Speaker 3:31
close enough, Nebraska. Nebraska,

Speaker 4 3:33
Southern California, from SoCal, where in SoCal? Yeah. So, born and raised in San Fernando Valley. So I was born in Tarzana. Lived in Woodland Hills for a long time. Family moved me out to 1000 Oaks, but we've been here in the Vegas area for about 10 years, almost Excellent, excellent.

Speaker 1 3:48
So let's dive straight into a few questions here. What security measures Lieutenant will mean are currently in place to ensure students safety here on campus?

Speaker 2 3:58
Yeah, that's a great question. Well, one of, one of the things that we do as as you saw, is we on the community outreach team. We try to get as involved as possible throughout the campus with like, safety presentations. That's what officer Franklin, that's how you guys got connected, right? We've done dozens and dozens of those across all campuses, but here at UNLV specifically, and in those presentations, we always give tips, safety tips to the students and faculty and staff on on ways to keep them, keep keep themselves safe. I would say one of the best things that that people here at UNLV have at their at their disposal is the rebel Safe App, which we're going to talk shamelessly throughout this podcast about. Rebel Safe App is a great tool, probably one of the most effective ways to contact UPD if you have an emergency or non emergency emergency service or emergency alerts can come through that. So rebel Safe App is a huge tool. We also have emergency phones. Around campus. We have well over 100 emergency phones just across the UNLV campus. It's as simple as you push a button on the front of the phone. It activates a blue light on top of that phone lets our dispatch know exactly where you're at and you're it's essentially like calling 911, with a push of a button. In addition to that, if there's an emergency on campus alerts come through the Revel Safe app, the emergency phones, people's desk lines like land lines at desks and classrooms, as well as through their their computer monitors as well. In addition to that as well, we also have security cameras all around campus. We have hundreds of cameras across the campus just to provide that sense of security to folks. Wow.

Speaker 1 5:45
So is there officers monitoring those cameras throughout, throughout the campus, or so?

Speaker 2 5:50
So, because of the vast amount of cameras that we have, we it's not feasible to have somebody you know, monitoring 24/7, however, each camera that is however, our dispatchers do have the cameras pulled up in their in their dispatch center. Again, like I said, there's only so many of them. They only have so many screens, and so they can't watch every camera at one at one time, but they do try to find those areas that are highly populated, that are the busier areas on campus, and keep an eye on those regularly. Okay,

Speaker 1 6:19
excellent, excellent, Sergeant lamb. How does UNLV Police Department collaborate with local law enforcement agencies? Because I'm sure there are times that something may have on, may happen on campus, that you need their assistance with, or there may be something that happened off, off campus and they need your assistance. So how does that work? That collaboration?

Speaker 4 6:37
Absolutely. So we have in place where called MOUs. It's Memorandum of an understanding, and we have these with all the local agencies, but most notably around the UNLV area would be Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. And so we work side by side with them. We actually monitor their radio channel and vice versa. So if they are on a call near our campus, that may be just off campus, and they request our assistance, we then go provide that assistance for them, and vice versa. If we have a call on campus that we require their assistance with, they will come and assist us with that as well. Excellent,

Speaker 1 7:08
excellent. So let me ask this question to the one of the most popular officers over in UV to here, since you're always in contact with students here on campus, and like I said, those students really spoke highly of you there. You preach to them, and they were awesome, making them feel like their voice was heard. So what is the crime rate here on campus? And what trends have you noticed in recent years? Think you said you've been here for five years, about three and a half. About three and a half. Okay, so have you noticed any trends, or anything at all that you can speak with us about, you know,

Speaker 3 7:41
it's, it's pretty consistent, and a lot of it has to do with, you know, the scooter theft or bicycle theft, you know, that's, that's the big thing. And then that's, that's nationwide, every campus, yes, now that we do offer a crime report, which is on our university website, if people are concerned about, if you know what the crime rate is on campus, is they can access that through our University Police website. And that's that's done annually. So by the end of this, in the end of this year, we'll have the 2020, 24 one posted. But the main thing we're focusing on right now is a lot of the theft, and we're trying to encourage the the students to register their their their computers, their scooters, their bicycles. They can register for free through our university headquarters and just just to educate them to, you know, make sure that they're being locked up because there's a lot of buildings that they're putting their spikes and scooters in. And, you know, a lot of people from the Midwest, like myself, you know, were more trusting. You're going to a big city, and they still have that trust factor. Well, yeah, it's, it's, it's day and night. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 8:52
And with these questions that I'm asking, you know, even though I'm calling, you know, specific names, if you have anything that you want to add to the questions that's being asked. Please just jump right in and yeah and give us what you what you want us to know there so, and I'm just going to ask this one, instead of calling a specific name in general, what procedures are in place for responding to emergencies, such as natural disasters, active shooter situations or medical emergencies? Yeah,

Speaker 2 9:17
I'll take that. So we, our department does have our own Office of Emergency Management that's staffed with a handful of professionals in that office, so they do a couple really neat things. They can go into a department here at UNLV if they're having some safety concerns on in their specific space, and they can kind of work through procedures to help them kind of have like the industry standard as far as procedures go. So that's one thing that we offer. Another thing is, if you go to the Office of Emergency Management Portal on UPD website, if you go to the very bottom under Quick Links, there's an emergency preparedness guide that kind of talks at. About run Hide, Fight, in terms of activist sailing, it talks about fire evacuate, evacuating if there's a fire, if there's a flood, gas leak, earthquake. It gives the protocols for all of those. It's long. It's like 92 pages. So yeah, definitely sit down before you read that. But, but it's a really good resource to answer a lot of those questions. In addition to that we do offer safety presentations specific to emergency preparedness, and so that's something that get, that can be requested through our website. And then, like I said, shamelessly plugging the rebel Safe app. If there were any type of emergency UPD would be giving direction to the campus on how to respond appropriately through that rebel Safe app as well.

Speaker 1 10:40
Okay. Excellent. You know, during my time at San Diego State, I was there for 13 years before coming here, and I was a professor in the classroom, so I would reach out to different departments and have them come in and actually speak to specific classes about whatever the topic would be like with SDPD on campus. I would have them come and talk about campus safety there as well. So do you guys do anything like that here on campus, where you go to a professor's class to speak about certain things?

Speaker 3 11:08
Absolutely. Lieutenant Wellman has has got me involved in this too, and also Sergeant lamb, yeah, Campus Safety presentations, like you mentioned, we do active assailant presentations. And I also actually started, it was about three years ago, and a sorority, I believe, is gamma, phi, beta, they they reached out and they asked if we could do, like an alcohol drug safety presentation. And I would love to do that. I mean, that's kind of what I've been training for. I'm a Dre expert, sfst instructor, and I said absolutely, and it was huge. And so three years now running, they've asked me back every year, and I would love to get involved with other sororities and even fraternities, if they would like to reach out to us, that way I can do the alcohol and drug safety presentation.

Speaker 1 11:59
Wow, I'm glad to know that. See, I'm sitting here learning something new in this as well. I'm in fraternity as well. I'm a part of FFA fraternity Incorporated, and I have my college brothers here that are on campus sick massage. So I would definitely be plugging this and letting that know absolutely. Hey, Officer Franklin, over for this, so you begin to call pretty soon by email. Okay, so let's move on to like patrol and visibility. How often are patrols conducted around the campus, particularly in high traffic areas as well?

Speaker 4 12:29
Yeah, we have officers here, 24/7, 365, so we're a fully intact police department with our own dispatch center. I always like to tell people we are visible, we're approachable and we're always nearby. We really pride ourselves on being a community oriented police department that way and being accessible to the campus population when they need

Speaker 1 12:51
us. Yeah, that's excellent. You know, that's one thing that I can say that I've noticed being here on this campus versus my old institution that I was at, officers here are more approachable even when they're, you know, walking through, let's say, the Student Union. I usually just walk up to one and just start talking, and we'll have just a normal conversation. So that's one of the things that I can say that's really positive about updating, is the officers in updating are very approachable. We're

Speaker 3 13:16
family, you know, it's like, we're not here to, you know, hey, I'm watching you. You know, we're here to be like, Look, if you need us, we're here for you reach out to us. The more we make them feel more comfortable with us, the more likely they're going to come over and say, Hey, Officer, I have an issue, and then we can speak with them about it. Yeah,

Speaker 1 13:34
yeah, it's really important to foster. And I think you're talking about that sense of belonging, yeah, here on campus. So yeah, that's always a good thing. So are there designated high security zones, or area where students can feel safest during the late hours at night? I know sometimes you know students, like when I was in undergrad, my last class was at 950 at night, so it'd be pretty dark on campus when I walk in. So are there designated high security zones, an area where students can feel safest during late hours.

Speaker 2 14:03
So I would say, you know, in the late hours, some of the busier buildings are going to be student union, the library, right? But there are classes kind of across campus. What I would say is definitely try to stick to those main inner sidewalks. That's where a lot of our emergency phones are located, and so and those are the well lit areas. So that's what I would recommend, is state say to those areas that are well lit, be familiar with where those emergency phones are located. If you're if you have a specific building that you go to and you park in a specific parking lot, be familiar with, you know, emergency phones along that route, and state try to stay in those well lit areas. We do offer security escorts as part of our patrol approach, and so you can request that through the rebel Safe App, plugging that again, and then one of our student cadets will come and do it's like a. Walking. Escort. Will I walk with you from your class to your car, your car to your class or to your dorm? So that's an option that we offer to the to the folks here on campus. Excellent,

Speaker 1 15:08
excellent. And that that kind of leads into the next question that I had, you know, what resources do the Department provide to educate students about personal safety and crime provision? So I guess one of those crime provision methods would be that. Escort. So is there anything that we could add to that particular question?

Speaker 4 15:24
Certainly the safety and crime prevention presentations that we give, as well, the active assailant presentations give a lot of really valuable information, and really what it does is it kind of opens up and facilitates that conversation between the police officers and the students. What we like to say is, yes, we're always here, but we can't be everywhere at once. So we really like to empower the student body to come up with kind of like their own plan and their own mindset of, what would I do if and that really can kind of help open up that conversation and have them really kind of empower themselves and also work in collaboration with us as police department. Okay,

Speaker 1 16:00
there was something mentioned earlier about run hide run hide fight. So how does that work in with, within what you just said, whether it's coming from the car on a particular route to your classroom. So do that tie in with,

Speaker 2 16:16
yeah, so, so the run hide fight model that that's a model that was established by the Department of Homeland Security as a response protocol for active assailant incidents. And so if there's an active assailant in a particular building or on a campus or in any area, the model that they have, they try to keep it as safe as or as simple rather as possible, and it is simply run, if safe, hide, if you're not able to run and then fight as a last resort. One of the biggest themes of that, of that training, the active assailant training that we do, is situational awareness. So yeah, it definitely ties into your day to day safety is just being aware of your surroundings, being aware of who's around you, what's going on around you. I'm holding up a phone right now for the folks that can't see but I think often, a lot of us are guilty of just being like, tied in to our phones and not being aware of what's going on around us. And that's one of the that's one of the easiest things that we can do, is just put your phone away when you're walking to class or walk into your car and be aware of your surroundings. And that's a huge safety tip.

Speaker 1 17:17
Yeah, that's one of the things that I had to break myself on during the day, you know, I'm okay with walking out of, I don't know, Costco or Sam's Club, and being on my phone, but at night, I'm making a point at night to not be on my phone when I'm walking out of a store. I want to make sure that I'm getting to my car safely, you know, seeing what's around me. So that's one of the things. And I know it's tough for students to not look at their phone for at least 10 seconds when they're coming out of class. But that's one of those things that you got to discipline yourself on. So are there any free self defense or safety workshops offered to students at all?

Speaker 4 17:52
Yeah, we do offer something called Jane jitsu. So it's for Jane, yeah, j, A, N, E, Jane jitsu. So it's tied into the jiu jitsu martial art, and it's geared towards women and female students on campus. Again, it teaches situational awareness, vigilance, but also techniques that can help them escape from potential attack. So that is something that we offer. We're also currently trying to work in collaboration with some local martial arts instructors, to bring them on board and kind of provide larger scale of self defense classes to the student population. Because it since December 6, it's the increase in demand, I would say, not only for the presentations, but also self defense training has gone exponentially up.

Speaker 1 18:40
Okay, so this is something that you the students will have to email you about, or an old group or an organization will have to email you about to actually get this Gi. James Sue,

Speaker 4 18:51
yes, so that if they go to the Police Services website, it'll be on there under community engagement, and they can anything that we do will be posted on there, as well as through our social media accounts. And I believe UNLV today as well will will announce that when they are when there are availabilities.

Speaker 1 19:09
Okay, excellent, excellent. So how does the department notify students and staff about ongoing incidents or threats here on campus? Well, going back

Speaker 3 19:17
to the rebel Safe App, that's the main one. You know, the incident that occurred last year. It was, you know, out at everybody that's had the app. It was instant, you know, with the active assailant on campus. But that's the main thing. I want everybody to sign up for the rebel Safe App, whether it's faculty, students, people that are in clubs, it doesn't matter. But just sign up for it, because that's the direct line of contact. Is the rebel Safe App, and also we'll be sending, we can send out emails, and we'll and if people have questions, they can, they can contact us, and I could give you the number over the phone. It's 702-895-5575, and that's our our direct line through our headquarters. Orders, if they have any concerns or want to know what's going on, that they'll be able to contact our number and we can, we can inform them what's going on.

Speaker 1 20:08
Excellent, actually. So as the listening audience have heard about 10 times now, make sure you download that rebel Safe app so that you can be updated. What roles do does technology such as surveillance cameras and emergency apps play in campus safety. And again, I know this is going to lead back to the app, so anything we can add to that at all,

Speaker 2 20:30
yeah, yeah. So, like you said, I think that's an easy transition back to that rebel Safe App. UNLV has has done a great job. And you know, they've been sending out. President Whitfield's been sending out periodic rebel recovery emails. In his most recent email, he talked about increasing surveillance cameras, increasing those, those emergency phones that we've talked about. UNLV has invested tremendously and shown their their dedication to the safety of the campus through their investment of these programs, the security cameras, those are a huge tool for us as a police department. When something happens on campus, even as something as simple as a theft, our detectives are able to go back and review those cameras and try to find closure and a resolution for that victim. So yeah, we rely heavily on that technology, and we're just grateful that UNLV has invested and in those safety measures.

Unknown Speaker 21:28
Excellent. Anyone want

Speaker 3 21:29
to add to that? Yeah, we, well, we've also implemented a lot more eyes and ears, obviously, as an agency, we're trying to increase our our squads, and, you know, the people. And we also have, I don't know if, if everybody has noticed, but we also have that the yellow shirt security on campus, oh yes. We've also implemented community service officers, and also the student cadet program, and they are there to help us out. I mean, there's at least 100 buildings on this campus alone where, you know, one squad of officers isn't going to be able to hit all these what's having these implemented? There are just a lot more eyes and ears. If they see something suspicious, they'll give us a call, and then we'll react to

Speaker 1 22:10
it. Yeah. You know, that's one thing that I've noticed in my department, meetings that we have once a week, is usually at some point, the director is always going to say, if you see something, you say something so absolutely, I've noticed that almost every department

Speaker 3 22:24
meetings and we take everything seriously, even if a student says, I think this person is following me, I don't know who this is, we're going to take it seriously. We're going to address it and figure out, is this just just a coincidence, or is this somebody that's actually, you know, following a student?

Speaker 1 22:39
Okay, are there programs or initiative aimed at addressing issues like death, assault, substance abuse on campus, which, I think we may have touched some of that already, but if we could just mention those again, yeah,

Speaker 4 22:52
let me I'll just plug the CAPS program here, Student Counseling and Psychological Services in the rec and Wellness Center. Great, valuable resource. They have individual therapy, group therapy, if you're struggling with alcohol or drug addiction, just general mental health as well. We have really great staff there who are really dedicated to the student population. And again, rebel Safe app has a lot of resources in there that you can be tied into on campus. Excellent,

Speaker 1 23:20
excellent. I'm glad you said that, because literally, I was just telling all Lieutenant women walking here prior to coming for the podcast. Just now, I was over in caps because I have a student that was in a mental health crisis and suicide crisis as well. So I was able to walk over to caps with this particular student, make sure that student is taken care of while I come here and do this. So when I leave this, I go right back to caps. Just check on them, because I want the student to know that. You know, not in this by yourself. I'm here with you. So let's, let's talk about some community engagement. How does the department be a relationship with the student body to promote and trust corporations also? How does that? How does that build that sense of belonging? How is that built? Well,

Speaker 3 24:01
any activities that that goes on in campus, we try to be part of, obviously, whether it's, you know, donuts with a cop, or getting getting beat up in a volleyball tournament, or, you know, just just being involved with student activity or faculty activity, that's the key to just building more camaraderie and building the trust with the students and faculty. So anything that goes on, we try to be part of or even in briefing. Hey, this is what's going on on campus. We need extra patrols at these buildings for today. You know, even if it's not something where they reached out to us, but we know what's going on, we'll try to make, making a point to to get over to those buildings and just be, be visual.

Unknown Speaker 24:45
Excellent, excellent,

Speaker 2 24:47
if I could quickly add to that. So our interim chief, Arnold Vasquez, one of his key tenants, is community outreach. He's passionate about it, and I, I'm right there with him that wholeheartedly, that. That is that link that connects us, the police department, to the community. And since he's been here to piggyback off what officer Franklin was saying, we've we've not only attended, but participated in events such as a a volleyball tournament that we we were just completely annihilated in, but we participated in it. And the feedback that we got from those folks was some of these people that have worked here for 1015, years have never seen our department participate in some of those events. So we've definitely turned a new page as far as how involved we're going to be in the campus community. So you can see a lot more of us. We've participated in campus, five ks and different events, and you're gonna see that increase as time goes on. Yeah,

Speaker 1 25:44
that's excellent. You know, even even competing in something like that, like a volleyball tournament, and you guys just being there, I don't think there's ever a loss, because the thing is, like you just said that, you have people that are saying, Oh, I've never seen you guys. I'm here before. So you get the win by actually being there. They see you there. They see you in a different light, other than just seeing you driving or walking around campus as an officer. They see that you're human. They see that, oh, he played volleyball, just like I do. So yeah, that's one of the key things here. We just recently had a aromatherapy event over in SDP that turned out so well that I i piggybacked off that and brought them to Stonewall suites, and it went so well there. And I think that would be a great opportunity where, and the students was asking if I could do it again before the end of the semesters. And I was like, No, exactly, we do it in spring. But I think that would be a great opportunity also to have, you know, if there are some offices available to come over do the aroma therapy with the students, it's just building your own little infuser scent thing. But that would be an opportunity so that they can see you in a different light, other than just, you know, seeing you driving in a truck or walking around campus, blah, blah, blah. So those are excellent, and food is always provided, so you get free lunch also. So it's always a draw for us. So what steps are taken to ensure that international students and other diverse groups feel safe and supported on campus, and when I say other diverse groups, like African American students, our Stonewall suite students? So what's being done, or what's implemented, or measures are being taken to make sure and the international students are being safe.

Speaker 2 27:24
Yeah, yeah. So, you know, one thing that I love about working here at UNLV is, UNLV prides itself as being one of the most diverse universities in the nation, right? And our department definitely models that in, in our hiring process, in a lot of the trainings that are mandated for our department. So our department is consistent of a very diverse group of individuals, from our police officers to our administrative personnel. And I think that's probably one of the one of the most efficient ways that you can connect with with the community on a diversity level, is modeling kind of the community, right? Exactly. And so we've taken that to heart, and our the way that we hire models that, and I've seen the benefit from it first hand out in the field. So I'd say that's probably the number one thing that we're doing to address that, excellent,

Speaker 1 28:21
excellent. It's always important, I think, you know, when students can see themselves in a particular situation, just like when I taught at San Diego State, I made sure that all of my students were reflected in the books that was chosen by the authors, so they were able to see themselves that and that. So here on campus, I've noticed also there are, there's African American officers here on campus as well, and I see our black students talking with those officers also, because I know on my old campus, and even just out in public in general, there are some African Americans that have issues with just the police being around with just the word the police. But I see here on campus that they gravitate to these officers. They laughing and talking with them outside of Starbucks and Su. So I think that sense of belonging and them feeling comfortable enough to actually talk with these officers says a lot about the department as well. I got nothing but positive feedback from any student when I'm asking them about UPD or if their comment about updating is always positive. So that's a great thing that you

Speaker 3 29:20
guys are doing and just sitting down with them too. I mean, Sammy, I was with you with that diversity group, and they were their concerns were their safety in the dorms. And the main thing was, I want to hear, I mean, I had the whole script, but I threw it aside. I said, I want to hear what your concerns are, and just listening to them like, this is what we what we need, and saying, Okay, well, I'm going to take this to Lieutenant woman. We're going to see if we can address this. We are going to increase more traffic, you know, inside the dorms, and that right there, I think, just kind of opened up their eyes be like, Wow, thank you. Because they just, they just want to be heard. They don't feel safe. Something. Times,

Speaker 1 30:00
yeah, exactly. And that's one of the things too. Because I did notice that once you left and the students was talking, and one of the one of the comments, one student make the comment, he actually sat there and actually looked at looked us in the face and listened. He didn't like roll his eyes or turn his head other ways, or said his body language definitely there, supporting and listening to us. So that's one of the things that students were saying as well. And you've got nothing but high praise from those students. And I really appreciate the way that you came in, the way that you handled students, the way that you presented yourself, the way that you just fit right in. You sat at the table with us and with the students. So it was just great, and the students appreciated and I think that's what it should be. Yeah, you know, absolutely, it's been great. So if you could offer advice to students on here on campus, what advice? And I'm going to go around the table, because we're coming to an end here, what advice would you offer students on campus?

Speaker 3 30:52
Bring your questions to us. You know, don't, don't be afraid to, you know, come up to us and ask questions if they have concerns. But that's the main thing is, you know, be open with us, and we're here to help them out, you know, students or faculty. But don't be afraid to come up to us and say, hey, you know, I have a question about this, and if I don't know the answer, I can go to Lieutenant Wilmore, I can go to Sergeant lamb and say, Hey, this is a good question. What can we do about this, but we'll get the answer,

Speaker 2 31:22
excellent. Yeah, I would say if, if there's ever opportunities to further your understanding or education in terms of your personal safety, take advantage of it. I've got to give credit where credit's due. Sergeant lamb, we've done dozens of safety presentations across UNLV, and Sergeant lamb has single handedly done almost handedly done almost all of those on his own. However, Officer Franklin, as you guys were introduced, assist with those as well, and they do. They both do an incredible job, but that's a way for people to get tools to help make sure that they're staying safe. And so if what I would say to students or faculty and staff is, if you see opportunities to attend a safety presentation or to watch a video that maybe we put out, just take the time to participate in that you can never not invest enough in your safety, right? So just always try to invest in your safety.

Speaker 4 32:15
Absolutely, yeah, some of the feedback that I get from some of the safety presentations is that some of the students hesitate to contact us. And what I want to say is never hesitate to contact us. You never bothering us. We are truly here for you, the students, the faculty, for your protection, for your safety, and so that you can maintain just a sense of peace while you're on our campus. So we're here for you. Thank

Speaker 1 32:39
you so much. Thank you so much. UPD, Lieutenant Bowman, Officer Franklin and Sergeant lamb. Thank you so very much for coming to us here on the podcast, and we look forward to having you back. Absolutely thank you. And that's the wrap

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