C.C. Reader
Student Service Series
By Kathy Kern
1. You live in Meade Heights and you
locked yourself out of your house. You:
A.) wait around or spend all day
looking for one of your housemates.
B.) break a window
C.) call Police Services.
2. You are an international student
who needs car insurance. You:
A.) call any company in the phone
book and go with them, regardless of
their rates or reputation.
B.) live without it.
C.) call Police Services and ask for
advice.
The answer to both of the above
questions is "C" : call Police Services. In
addition, the Capitol Campus Police
provide house checks for vacationing
Meade Heights residents, start students'
cars with jumper cables, and help stu
dents open their cars when the keys are
locked inside. Police Services also helps_
students who are planning to travel by
checking the road conditions for them, if
the students request it.
But the services don't stop there. If
any Capitol Campus faculty member,
staff member, or student runs out of gas,
the campus police will make sure that
the stranded motorist gets fuel. Police
Services also checks complaints by stu
dents concerning drunk drivers or other
incidents. Also, if a student finds pills
and is concerned about another student's
wellbeing because of the discovery, the
student can take the drugs to Police
Services. Police Services, in turn, will
take the material in question to be
analyzed at the State Police headquar
ters in Harrisburg.
Police Services is located in CRAGS
Building, behind the Multi : Purpose Buil
ding. The campus police force consists of
four full-time officers, including police
supervisor Chuck Alesky. In case of an
emergency, Lower Swatara Township
Police are first on call for Capitol
Campus. The Middletown Police will also
respond if requested. These two fine
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police departments can arrive at the
campus in a matter of minutes. We
State Police, since their response time
may take up to an hour, are third in line
for an emergency call here.
It is interesting to note here that,
although the University Park Police
carry guns, the force here at Capitol
does not. The reason, according to Police
Supervisor Chuck Alesky, is that "the
administration feels that there is no need
for it here."
Besides offering many services to the
students here, Police Services is now
working towards a goal, having student
security in mind: bicycle registration on
campus. Supervisor Alesky notes that
this registration will be done through
the Borough of Middletown and will help
locate bikes stolen from the campus. If
all goes as planned, the service will be in
effect for the Spring term.
Equipment used by Police Services
to help the force do its job include the
Breathalizer and the engraver.
The Breathalizer is used on campus
when an officer gives a sobriety test to a
driver suspected of being drunk. If the
driver cannot pick up a coin (first test)
and is still suspected of being drunk, he
is hauled into the headquarters for a test
on the Breathalizer, an instrument which
measures the amount of alcohol in the
driver's system. If the driver refuses to
take the test, his license is automatically
suspended.
The engraver is used for identifying
stereo equipment or other valuables
which might not carry a serial number.
A student engraves either his social
security number or his driver's license
number on the metal or plastic part of
the item. Police Services has issued
engraving kits to the dormitories and
students who wish to use an engraver
should contact any R.A.
The campus police, however, are not
without rough spots in their job. Van
dalism is a traditionally hard-to-stop and
a hard-to-solve crime. Alesky notes that
over the past two years here, the
incidence of vandalism has decreased.
The Black Student Union here at Capitol challenges you to be a contestant.
ALL YOU have to do is name the famous Black History Characters in the mural
located in the Black Cultural Arts Center, W-134.
Entry blanks will be available at these two locations:
1. The Student Activities Office
2. The BCAC Lounge [W-134]
Important Note: the finished entry blanks must be hand-delivered to the
Student Activities office by 4 pan.; Friday, February 20,1981. All entries must be
dated. Limit one entry per student.
Prizes being offered are Ist prize - 100.00 Book Store Scholarship
2nd prize - 350.00 Book Store Scholarship
3rd prize - 025.00 Book Store Scholarship
Thursday, February 19, 1981
The Police Services Office is located in CRAGS, the Center for Research and
Graduate Studies, located near the Multi-Purpose Building. The Police provide
many valuable services to students at Capitol. READER photo by Harry H. Moyer
"The idea is to get the students and staff
involved in curbing it," says Alesky.
However, he also says that "students
don't want to destroy 4a relationship by
reporting a friend who has vandalized
school property." The police Supervisor
feels that if everyone takes an active role
in deterring or reporting the crime, the
incidence of vandalism can decrease here
for a third year in a row, something
which everyone can be oroud of.
Another problem facing Police Ser
vices is the incidence of non-disabled
drivers parking in spaces reserved for
the temporarily handicapped drivers
registered as temporarily handicapped.
Students are requesting more visitor
parking spaces, however, saying that
there are too many "temporarily handi
capped" spaces. It should be noted that
there are three spaces for permanently
handicapped drivers and five such
drivers registered. Although the regis
tered temporarily disabled drivers are
not permanently disabled, according to
Alesky, "unfortunately we have people
who ignore the signs and park there
anyway."
In all, Police Services , is here to, serve
the students' needs and security. "Our
primary concern is to protect the stu
dents from people who come in from
off-campus and vandalize and drive when
drunk," says Alesky. He and his squad
encourage students to report such beha
vior to Police Services. Also, it is good to
know that when a student has a security
question, or car insurance confusion, or
is locked out of his house or car, there is
someone for him to turn to: Police
Services.
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