Public Safety offers classes for crime prevention

With hundreds of students milling around campus on a daily basis, the importance of being aware of your surroundings and being safe are priceless.
At GCSU, Crime Prevention classes are aimed to aid in teaching others how to ensure personal safety.
Crime Prevention classes are offered by the GCSU Police Department on various topics such as Personal Safety for Women, Alcohol Awareness and Pedestrian/Bicycle Awareness in order to ensure that GCSU students, faculty and staff remain safe during their time on campus. These classes are offered on demand and are given by request. The class size is flexible and ranges from around 15 to 25 people but can also be given to large groups or to one individual.
“Crime Prevention classes are chosen based on the specific needs and issues on each campus. For example, we chose to do the Pedestrian/Bicycle Awareness class based on the fact that our campus is mainly foot traffic and we have a lot of problems with pedestrian and bicycle safety here because of it,” Public Safety Lt. Greg Williams said.
The material for these programs is presented in a variety of forums such as PowerPoint presentations, hands-on training and demonstrations. These classes generally are an hour long but can be longer at the request of the person taking the class.
“Crime Prevention classes are a good way to know what to do in an unsafe situation. My roommate and I want to take a class about women’s safety so that we will know how to handle a dangerous situation if it were ever to occur,” freshman undeclared major Jade Disque said.
While GCSU is ranked to be one of the safest universities in the country, Lt. Williams believes in the importance of taking Crime Prevention classes at GCSU.
“It’s a part of maturing,” Williams said. “You need to be aware of your surroundings and potential situations that could occur. When you are at home with your parents, you have a false sense of security and have the mentality that ‘that couldn’t happen to me.’ Unfortunately, those are the people that are going to be in those situations because of it. By taking (Crime Prevention classes), you would be able to know what to do in that situation.”

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