Embracing a reactive law enforcement approach in a hospital setting leads officers to miss opportunity to intervene before a situation escalates, according to an article on the Campus Security website.
“We’re more guardians than we are warriors,” he adds. “Although we can respond rapidly to an active shooter with the best trained officers, we don’t want to have to do that. We want to prevent it as much as we can,” University of Texas at Houston (UTP-H) Police Chief William Adcox, who is this year’s Campus Safety Healthcare Director of the Year.
Adcox has transformed his department into an agency that embraces threat management and looks beyond the fact that a crime may have been committed.
Since 2012, the department has experienced a 300 percent increase in early intervention reporting by hospital staff.
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