UPD Invites Campus to Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures Tabletop Exercise

12/03/2012

JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITYY POLICE DEPARTMENT
Ext. 5050    FAX 5286

MEMORANDUM

TO:  Jacksonville State University’s Executive Management Team
TO:  Emergency Operations Team, Building Managers, Faculty/Staff and Students

FROM:  Jacksonville State University Police Department     

DATE:  November 30, 2012   

SUBJECT:  Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures Tabletop Exercise
SUBJECT:  Orientation of UPD’s Services

The University Police Department would like to invite all members of JSU’s emergency response teams to attend a tabletop exercise concentrating on JSU’s emergency response and evacuation procedures. Throughout the year UPD and University Housing conduct numerous evacuation drills for the student population in preparation for an emergency. This specific exercise will allow University employees, students, and departments to participate and demonstrate their response to a potential emergency event.

UPD encourages all faculty, staff, and students to review standard response and evacuation protocols in the JSU Emergency Operations Plan at http://www.jsu.edu/police/docs/jsueop.pdf. The exercise is scheduled for December 12^th in room 1101-B of the Houston Cole Library. There will be two training session offered:

• 10AM till Noon
• 1PM till 3:00PM

We will also offer the 1-hour training session concerning “UPD’s Services and Crime Prevention”   for those departments that were unable to attend our Fall 2012 training. This training class will also be on December 12^th in room 1101-B of the Houston Cole Library from 3PM till 4PM. Please email Melonie Carmichael with your time/class preference.