Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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They have no way of knowing if there really is a bomb in the building or if it is a hoax. They run the risk of being blown to the four corners of the campus. ' Police Brutality! --Hogwash! Not at Broward Community College. Here at BCC we don't know the meaning of police brutality. Our campus policemen are gentle individuals, family men working for a living like most of us. Some of them, such as Officer Mandel, are working to put their children thru college. Occasionally, they have to be firm and give out a wellcleserved traffic ticket, but did you know that the dollar you so begrudgingly pay for the traffic fine goes into a scholarship fund to benefit YOU the student? Most people on campus only remember the tickets that they have received form the campus policemen. But when cars stall, who gives the battery a boost? -- The campus policemen. And when keys get locked in cars, who gets them out? -- the campus policemen. Perhaps our campus policemen are not stereotypes of Dick Tracy or do not handle extreme situations lsuch as bomb threatsl like policemen on TV do, but nevertheless they expose themselves to many dangers. There is CC Security: 'Dr n t' U9 It' of only one man on at night. lt can get quite lonely out here in the middle of the night. There was an ocassion on which the policeman on night duty had a heart attack. lt was five hours before anyone came to his aid. During bomb scares, these policemen enter deserted buildings searching for a bomb. They have no way of knowing if there really is a bomb in the building or if it is a hoax. They run the risk of being blown to the four corners of the campus. The big problem, which some people tag as ineptness on the part of the men, is that our campus police force is undermanned. There are eight men working under Chief Debroski. One is a part-timer and the other one is at the North Campus. These men are split into three shifts and they also have to patrol our grounds on Saturday and Sundays. Included in our policemen's duty is the job of patrolling Nova University at night in exchange for the use of their parking area by our students. ABOVE: Jerry Pasquino, student security guard, provided insight s tuden t-securi ty rela ti onships. Security procures outside aid con bomb threats. ll

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College, Community, and Criminal Justice 'lans call for continual reevaluation d adjustment so as to serve the ucational needs of all facets of the oward Community, the State, and e Nation consonant with the iIIege's purposes and its resources. ith this goal in mind, Broward :mmunity College made a giant step rvvard in developing and expanding ll ll . : resources , with the oundbreaking, November 8th, of the 'iminal Justice Institute. :noting the great importance that 2 institute will have on our mmunity and state, many elected d appointed officials as well as many v enforcement officers from 'rounding communities and our tion's capital, took time out of busy iedules to come to the iundbreaking. Along with these 'icerned men and women, there ne telegrams containing congratu- lations and pledges of support from President Nixon, director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover, Gov. Reuben Askew and others. The Criminal Justice Institute has started the first of a three phase construction plan, which when finished should exceed one million dollars in building expenditures. Upon completion the first phase will hold a large student crime laboratory, a photographic darkroom, library, faculty and administrative offices, reception area, and restrooms. Phase two will be completed in 1973 and will provide facilities for physical training as well as a locker and shower room, conference and office space and more classrooms. The third and final phase will round out the institute with a firing range, larger classrooms for seminars, an expanded laboratory and a student lounge. With the completion of the complexed in 1974, the Police Academy class surveys site of new home, with Dr. Adams. l ' s fx!!! .?'f'reEMY -' ' V-f'5?'f ',al i'1i Q? i L F 'Y 6' iw 1 sm W gr, .. ws 1 I . f -1 -'-57'1 ?,'i .'.l . ' 'f Q .giiiii inf'rf wf.ir2.'fgf.E55'i f+1z rn-3,4 . MA... A, - px. , , H ,,. .-5.1 , .. 5' If' ,7f,fQ. Af.. 5352 ., its Trustees lead groundbreaking ceremony. institute will provide training for 1600 men and women every year, in all aspects of the Criminal Justice System. The institute will be the new home of the Broward County Police Academy, which is already in full operation on the Central Campus. ln addition, it will provide advanced training for all police agencies in Broward County, and will conduct periodic seminars on homicide, narcotics, legal questions that the policemen has to face in his daily life, advanced techniques of law enforcement and many other important areas of police work. The Criminal Justice Institute is a first for the State of Florida, but it expresses just one more way in which Broward Community College is striving to become a working institution for all of Broward County.

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r campus policemen work under es which hamper them in fulfilling air duties. These men lack the :hority that policemen and guards other campusses have. They have weapons so that they cannot xtect themselves or us if an occasion use in which a weapon was zessary. is the general feeling among the men it if they are going to do a job of Jtecting our campus, they should be tter trained for the job. Although lny of the men are ex-police officers others feel that they could use the training. An example of one of the men who went for training is Schade Mullins. Mr. Mullins went for training at the police academy where he was given the same training that regular police officers go through. Mr. Mullins feels that now he's is much better able to serve our campus in the capacity of campus policeman. The members of the campus police force also feel that they should have more authority. If anyone on campus was being attacked by another UNI' TOP: BCC Security Department on the move again - during bomb scare. BO77'OM: Car 7a 7030atB lot, over. . . the chatter neverstops. Officer Pihokken was part of strict security for Ralph Nader's visin individual, the men on the force would be helpless because they cannot make an arrest. And, if the attacker was armed the campus policemen would have to make a fast retreat since none of them carry weapons. Regardless of these obstacles, our campus policemen are doing a great job in patrolling our grounds and protecting and helping us. The overall job of protection and tight security surrounding the Ralph Nader presentation that day was commendable indeed. And so to Julius Debroski, Jacob Mandel, Gilbert McKinnon, Schade Mullins, Jerry Pasquino, Stephen Pikhokken, Edward Rasche, Officer Welsh, and Officer Doane lNorth Campusl, congratulations for a job well done. l