Citizen Complaints
It is ISU Police Department's policy to investigate all complaints against employees received from any source. The public has a right to expect efficient,
fair, and impartial law enforcement. Therefore, any complaint against an employee of this department must be thoroughly investigated to assure the maintenance of
these qualities. Employees too must be protected against false allegations. This can only be accomplished through a consistent and thorough investigation.
Complaints can be filed in person at the ISU Police Department, 210 N. 6th Street, Terre Haute, IN, by telephone at (812) 237-5555, or by email at
Joseph.Newport@indstate.edu
Annual Security and Fire Report
The Annual Security and Fire Report is published in compliance with
the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime
Statistics Act and the safety-related requirements of the Higher
Education Opportunity Act.
The report contains information regarding campus security, crime
prevention, fire safety, personal safety, policies for reporting crimes
and sexual harassment. Three years' of statistics are included for
certain types of crimes that were reported to have occurred on campus,
or in certain off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by
ISU, and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and
accessible from the campus.
http://www.indstate.edu/pubsafety/docs/Annual Security and Fire
Report 2016.pdf
If you would like to receive a hardcopy of the Annual Report you can stop by the Public
Safety office at 210 N. 6th Street, Terre Haute, IN or you can request a
copy be mailed to you by calling (812) 237-7829.
Rave Alert
Indiana State University employs the RAVE Emergency Text Messaging
System to send text messages to subscriber cell phones and/or e-mail
addresses. This system will be activated when:
- a Tornado Warning is issued for the immediate Terre Haute area.
- a major chemical spill occurs on or near campus.
- a major criminal event resulting in, or having potential to result in, widespread personal injury occurs on campus.
- the ISU campus will be closed due to a weather-related emergency.
- a Campus Crime Alert is issued.
- other occasions as deemed appropriate by University officials.
An “All Clear” text message will be sent when the situation has been resolved.
Any faculty member, staff member, or ISU student can sign up for this
service using his or her ISU network ID and password. More than
one phone number may be added by the user, to provide ISU emergency
notifications to family members or other interested parties.
Campus Security Authorities (CSA)
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus
Crime Statistics Act (the "Clery Act"), requires college and
universities to compile and publish statistics on certain criminal
offenses that occur on or adjacent to university properties. The Clery
Act requires certain crimes reported to a Campus Security Authority
(CSA) be included in those annual statistics. Therefore, CSA's must be
identified and trained in their reporting responsibilities. Not properly
identifying and training these individuals can cause the university to
suffer significant fines and jeopardize Title IV funding.
Below are training documents for Campus Security Authorities:
Campus Security Authority (CSA)
Crime/Incident Form
When utilizing this form several points need to be
emphasized:
- This form is intended for the
gathering of information regarding reported Clery crimes
only. It is in no way
meant to replace a police report.
If you are advised that a crime occurred in one of
the areas listed on the form you should first ask the person
if the crime was reported to the police.
If it has, you need not take further action.
This form should only be completed if the incident
has not been reported to a law enforcement agency.
- Attempt to be as specific as possible
when reporting the date, time and location of the crime.
This is necessary to reduce the possibility of
“double reporting” crimes which may be reported to us from
multiple sources.
- With regard to the location of the
crime, we are not only required to gather information
or incidents that
occur on campus and in residence halls, non-campus and off
campus facilities controlled by the University, such as
Greek houses, and public property adjoining the campus.
This would include public streets and sidewalks that
border the campus.
- Types of crimes to be reported – only
the more serious crimes need to be reported under the Clery
Act, these are listed on the form.
If you have any doubt that the incident fits under
one of the crimes listed, briefly explain what happened in
the narrative space provided and send the form to Public
Safety.
- Please complete the section pertaining
to “hate crimes”. For
purposes of the Clery Act, a hate crime would be committed
when the motive for any of the crimes listed on the form was
the victim’s race, gender, religion, sexual orientation,
ethnicity or disability.
It is important to point out that the victim need not
actually be a member of one of these groups.
The event would still be considered a hate crime if
the offender believed the victim was a member of a protected
class.
- There is a space provided for the
victim to give his/her name and telephone number although
this is not required.
Under the Clery Act you should report Clery crimes even if
they are provided anonymously.
In addition, we must also include hearsay information
in our statistics. If
you are given information by a student about a crime that
occurred to his/her roommate, for example, we must include
it.
- One of the attached forms should be
submitted for each incident you report.
All completed forms should be mailed to me.
I will compile the information and report it as
required. Please feel
free to make as many copies of the blank form as you feel
you might need.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Drones
Indiana State University has elected to refer all Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)/Drones inquiries to the ISU Public Safety
Department.
Any request to operate UAVs on property owned or controlled by ISU will have the following guidelines:
- The ISU Public Safety Department is charged with granting or denying approval for the operation of UAVs on the property of ISU.
- Requests must be made at least 1 business day prior to the operation of the UAVs.
- Requests are to be made through the Office of the Chief at (812) 237-7829 or to the Operations Captain at (812)237-4015.
- All UAVs must be flown in accordance with state statute and current FAA regulations including licensing and registrations.
- Specific and written dates/times will be supplied to the Public Safety Department at least 1 business day prior to all flying
sessions.
- Flying of UAVs will be limited to daylight hours.
- Flying near Residence Halls, Classroom Buildings or indoors is restricted and must be specifically approved.
Once granted, ISU Public Safety may make campus notifications through ISU Connect Email delivery and or “ISU Today” Announcements
Violators of this procedure may be subject to trespass or referral to the university disciplinary process.
-house
system to collect information on compliance
with standards and underwent a two-day,
on-site assessment to earn the three-year
accreditation through the Indiana Law
Enforcement Accreditation Commission, which
administers the development of a set of
standards and best practices for agencies
across the state. The accreditation is
voluntary and is open to both municipal and
college campus police departments.
