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Focus on education, technology to protect large campus
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
campus security report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-6247
pISSN - 1551-2800
DOI - 10.1002/casr.30173
Subject(s) - university campus , sociology , engineering , political science , architectural engineering
Policing a large public campus can be akin to policing a small city, as Lamine Secka, chief of police for San Diego State University, well knows. SDSU, which is home to 37,000 students and sees approximately 45,000–50,000 people on campus per day, is located in the busiest part of San Diego and is a very open campus. “It's very difficult to tell when you're on campus rather than just the surrounding community,” Secka said, an issue that has led to a close working relationship between the SDSU campus police force and the San Diego Police Department.