DPSCS
Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS)
This report will provide a comprehensive safety and security plan for the Maryland Public Safety Education and Training Center (PSETC). This security plan will be broken into different sections that contain information about different security factors that are security risks for the organization and its physical assets. The organization must use its budget in the most effective manner possible to ensure the safety of the organization and its facilities. It is critical to protect lives of students, faculty members, volunteers, employees and inmates from a potential threats that could emerge during the operations that take place at the facilities.
Facilities
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) is one of the largest agencies in Maryland state government, whose eleven thousand employees work as a team to protect the public and the offenders and arrestees under their supervision (Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services, N.d.). The Maryland Public Safety Education and Training Center (PSETC) is located in Sykesville, Maryland. The physical space is divided into two locations that are comprised of areas that are roughly 700 acres in size. The firearms Training Facility (FTF) and the Drivers Training Facility (DTF) are both on the same location that is about two miles from the Academic Center. Both of these training areas are open and have roads that connect them to various several residential communities however these communities are over twenty miles from this area.
Figure 1 - Map (DPSCS, N.d.)
The FTF facility has a set of unique challenges due to the use of firearms that serve as the locations primary training objective. This facility has staff offices, classrooms, armory, weapon cleaning area and outdoor firing ranges that are located about a quarter of a mile from that rest of the buildings. The Academic and Administrative Complex (AAC) also shares a location with the Maryland Springfield State (Mental) hospital. This hospital has accommodations for about four hundred mental patients. Within the AAC facility there are numerous offices and classrooms as well as computer labs, food preparation areas, dining halls, and even shops. There are two residential dorms in which guest or students can be housed overnight as well as a full gym that can be used for physical training.
Figure 2 - PSET Facility (DPSCS, N.d.)
PSETC has over a hundred staff members which also includes the DTF and the FTF. There is currently minimal security at best at the PSETC which is subject to concerns and the source of significant risk.
Physical Plant Intrusion
One of the security defenses that serves as a front line deterrent is the infrastructure that can prevent intrusion by unwanted individuals such as burglars or vandals. A physical plan is the first necessary for the PSETC as it can create environmental safeguards for controlling physical access to the grounds. Therefore the first line of defense is control unauthorized entry. The first step to this is to be able to know if someone has entered the building that does not have access. One simple step to this objective is to give authorized personnel a name tag badge that they wear on their clothing or around their neck. This provides the security team as well as the authorized visitors a quick visual clue as to who might not be authorized to be in the facilities.
In the event of an unauthorized entry, the person that discovers a possible breech in security should know exactly how to report the suspicious person. This will require that all employees, guests, and volunteers be trained in a reporting protocol. This will then allow the notification of a potential subject the security office who can start an investigation. The identification cards can also serve a dual purpose and be integrated with a security system. The cards can be used at doors of the building that allow authorized students and other personnel to access their respective areas. This would act as a significant deterrent to unauthorized visitors since it would be more difficult for them to enter the buildings.
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