NYU’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) has been collaborating with DIA to enhance professional standards, public safety operations and communications. Their initiatives have included:
- Disability Awareness Training for Annual In-Service Training candidates (Protective Services, Technical Sergeants, and Special Events Sergeants, Lieutenants, and Captains), New-Hire Security Officers and the Community Response Unit. Some training sessions include information on Bias Based Profiling.
- Redesigning the DPS Emergency Management website text and Public Safety website to ensure all pages were in compliance with digital accessibility requirements.
- Adding accessibility information and contacts for planning assistance to the Resilient NYU folder system to improve functionality.
- Design and implementation of inclusive “active threat” exercises, conducted with the Moses Center and Student Health Center.
- Collaborative projects with Environmental Health and Safety, and Facilities and Construction Management to identify inclusive signage needs for areas of refuge/areas of rescue assistance. This will be a priority project for 2019-20.
- Filming a disability, access and functional needs-inclusive “active threat” civilian response training video (planned Summer 2019).
- Publishing the first DPS annual report online, both in e-book and digitally accessible formats. The digitally accessible version includes all information located in the electronic book, allowing all members of the NYU community to access it.
