Department of Public Safety
Community Outreach
Police Mountain Bike Patrol Unit
Simmons College currently has several members of our Bike Policing Unit. These officers have gone through a 3 day training course taught by COBWEB.
COBWEB stands for Cops on Bikes With Education for Bikers and was designed by mountain bike police officers from Massachusetts. By making officers more visible and allowing better maneuverability throughout our campus, COBWEB creates a good community policing tool that keeps the officers in close contact with the Simmons community. Please feel free to stop and ask questions to any members of our unit.
Betsy's Friends
Betsy's Friends is a unique and special peer education program designed to educate students about relationship violence, as well as prevent it. A series of workshops are offered to help promote healthy relationships. This program provides information to help students understand the continuum of relationship violence, how to make healthy choices about relationships, and how to access help. To learn more about this program call the Health Education Office at 617-521-1001.
SART
Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) is a committee comprised of members from the Dean's Office, Public Safety, Residential Life, Health Education, the Health Center, and the Counseling Center. The primary goals of the committee are to ensure that accurate and consistent information and resource options are shared with sexual assault survivors, establish/review protocol for responding to sexual assault, communicate and coordinate services while respecting the survivor's confidentiality, compile resources to share with survivor's of sexual assault, make recommendations and assist in coordination of program development and prevention efforts, and to ensure accurate reporting and record keeping of sexual assault.
For more information about the Simmons SART Team visit the SART website.
http://my.simmons.edu/services/assault-resources/
Emergency Phones
There are numerous emergency phones located throughout the main and residential campus. Feel free to use phones to get directly connected to the Public Safety Dispatch Center for circumstances other than emergencies such as unlocks and motor vehicle assists.
