Northern Virginia Community College

Acting as the designee of the Alexandria Campus Provost, the Campus Police & Public Safety Department (CPD), under the direction of the Business Manager, assumes responsibility for creating and maintaining an emergency response plan. The purpose of this plan is to minimize an emergency's impact on the buildings' occupants, contents, and operations. To achieve this goal, the plan specifies actions for employees and students to take before, during, and after various types of emergencies. The cause of emergency evacuations or other emergency responses may include things like: fire hazard, bomb threat, hazardous waste incident, violent acts, power outages, dirty bomb explosions, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.

The plan also assigns responsibility for action to specific persons or groups. The Campus Police Lieutenant must review and update the entire emergency evacuation and response plan annually and as facilities and personnel change. Campus Police must provide training on the evacuation and emergency response procedures each semester with staff members having responsibilities in relation to the plan. Campus Police also should share the plan with the Health & Safety Committee.