Direct Report Goals

Reduce Crime and Maintain a Safe Environment.

• Consistent crime analysis.
• Effective and strategic resource allocation and deployment.
• Seek opportunities to incorporate strategic problem-solving initiatives.
• Community engagement, collaboration with University partners, and education.
• Public Safety mobile application relaunch

• Crime reductions or increases
• Community feedback.
• After action reports.
• Mobile application analytics.

Employ strategies to increase traffic safety, including visibility, education, and consistent monitoring.

• Periodic high visibility patrol in traffic safety areas of concern.
• Continue to develop and expand our traffic safety awareness campaign.
• Incorporate the collision data reports in our crime reduction, community engagement, and other collaborative meetings.
• Collaboration with other University Departments, the City of Cincinnati, and other community groups around pedestrian safety improvements, high visibility patrols, and traffic safety education.

• Increase or decrease in the number of traffic accidents, injury accidents, and fatalities.
• The number of high visibility patrols, traffic safety awareness campaigns, and traffic safety improvement initiatives.

Create a Strategic Plan for the university system's camera network and complete the installation of additional cameras following the plan.

• Engage in collaborative efforts with fellow campus stakeholders.
• Assess existing camera coverage, pinpointing any gaps in surveillance, and factoring in crime analysis data, potential vulnerabilities, and other public safety concerns to establish priorities.
• Upon finalizing the plan, proceed to install cameras per the allocated funding for the fiscal year.

• Development of strategic plan and installation of planned additional cameras.

Increase fire safety

• Conduct regular and consistent fire inspections and drills.
• Provide fire safety education.

• Achieve a 100% correction rate of all Tier 1 & 2 Fire Code Violations.
• Achieve a 100% fire/safety inspection rate for all UC buildings and a 100% inspection rate for all UC residence halls which are inspected before the start of each semester.
• Achieve 100% of State of Ohio fire drill requirements for all UC office buildings (1x annually) and residence halls (3x annually). The number of fire safety campaigns, messaging, etc.

Continue Business Continuity Planning activities while concurrently transitioning from Kuali into the new Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery software is to be funded in FY25.

• Continue Business Continuity Planning activities (plan updates, revisions, and testing) for UC departments and colleges using Bearcat Ready (Kuali) software while concurrently transitioning from Kuali into the new (new company TBD after the ongoing RFP process) Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery software is to be funded in FY25.

• Business Continuity Plans completed.
• Implementation of new business continuity software.

Create a strategic plan for UC Public Safety.

• Designate an internal team to research, develop, and implement a strategic plan. Include feedback from employees and the community.

• Completion of a strategic plan that provides guidance and direction for the department over the next 3-5 years that aligns with the vision, mission, values, and goals of the University of Cincinnati.