WORK TO START ON POLICE HEADQUARTERS FOR CSUN CAMPUS OFFICERS WORKING OUT OF DORMITORY SINCE 1994 EARTHQUAKE.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer NORTHRIDGE - Ever since the major earthquake of 1994 severely damaged its headquarters, the Police Department at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , has operated out of a residence hall, with officers working in converted bedroom suites. But that's about to change, with ground being broken today on a $10.2 million, 28,000-square-foot Department of Public Safety Building. Once completed in December 2006, it will be a far cry from the University Park Apartments, where the 72-member department now works. ``We're in housing,'' said CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge Chief of Police Anne P Anne P (born November 1972). She is a fashion model and an actress from Denmark. She was one of the hosts for Scandinavia's Next Top Model. She guided the Danish girls towards victory in Denmark, before the other participanting counties (Sweden and Norway) competing for . Glavin. ``Basically, we (work) in bedroom suites, and that's not the easiest thing to do with administrative and operational units.'' The new two-story headquarters will have a reception area, and it will house patrol and administrative functions along with parking and transportation services for the 33,000-student campus. It also will house the university's LiveScan program, providing electronic fingerprinting fingerprinting Act of taking an impression of a person's fingerprint. Because each person's fingerprints are unique, fingerprinting is used as a method of identification, especially in police investigations. services for businesses in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , Glavin said. The project is being funded by parking revenues and money generated by the University Corporation from its investment portfolio, said Colin Donahue, director of the Office of Facilities Planning. Campus law enforcement has become more critical since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, because crowded, easily accessible campuses are potential targets for terrorism, Glavin said. CSUN's Police Department is trained to handle weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or , and recently added a bomb-sniffing K-9 unit to its force. ``We're a city within a city, and we have to deal with all of the issues any urban community would have to deal with,'' Glavin said. Lisa M. Sodders, (818) 713-3663 lisa.sodders(at)dailynews.com IF YOU GO A groundbreaking ceremony for the Public Safety Building will be held at 10 a.m. today at Darby Avenue and Prairie Street, Northridge. A mobile emergency command trailer, the K-9 unit and the university police motorcycle A police motorcycle is a motorcycle used by various police departments. They may be custom designed to meet the requirements unique of a particular department. A police motorcycle is often called a "motor" by police officers in the United States. unit also will be on display. CAPTION(S): box Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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