Mission Statement

The Butte College Police Department is dedicated to the people, traditions and diversity of our College. In order to protect life and property, prevent crime and reduce the fear of crime, we will provide service with understanding, response with compassion, performance with integrity and law enforcement with vision.

Program Description

Our Goal is always to ensure that the College is a safe, peaceful and comfortable place for students and staff.  The College Police Officers have peace officer authority pursuant to Penal Code 830.32 and Education Code 72330. The College Police Department is responsible for law enforcement and all emergency responses on campus. The College Police department works closely with instructors and staff to resolve student disciplinary problems.  We work closely with the health clinic to ensure wellness of our students and staff.  We provide emergency response education to our students and staff. We work with all college departments to prevent crime when possible.  We are also responsible for providing support services tailored to meet the needs of the diverse campus community. Our department strives to provide a sensitive measured approach to all situations requiring police assistance, while still maintaining the autonomy of the College.

Student Learning/Administrative Unit Outcomes

Standards/Goals for Student Achievement (Instruction Departments)

Standards/Goals for Student Achievement (All Other Departments)

The Butte College Police Department supports the college by ensuring that the college remains a safe, peacefull place for staff to work and for students to attend class and study.

Strategic Direction

The Butte College Police Department supports the college by ensuring that the college remains a safe, peacefull place for staff to work and for students to attend class and study.

Program Review

The Butte College Police Department's last Program review was conducted in 2020 for the 2020/2021 fiscal year.  That program review listed the following goals:
1) We will continue to seek out training opportunities with other agencies, online and increase training time internally.
2) We will deter crime by increasing our visible presence on campus by providing more training to students and staff, increasing time spent on foot patrol, implementing new technology to improve efficiency and predict crime trends.
3) We will attempt to locate a more accessible, central location for our office.
4) We will continue to provide high quality training to employees and students.
Given the funding allocated to us, we continue to perform well in area 1.  In Area 3, we still need to relocate to our own space more central to campus.  Students need to be able to find us more quickly and easily.  Students need to feel safe and secure when confiding in us and not be forced to speak to us in an open building full of other staff.   In Area 4 we have made a significant amount of progress.  We have provided trainings on campus safety, including “Surviving Critical Incidents”, “Dealing with Difficult Students,”  "Bomb Threat Awareness", "Clery Act" and “Modern Policing” to both students and staff.  We have also provided basic safety information to all incoming students at orientation and through College Connection classes.  We performed a campus wide lockdown and evacuation drills annually. 
Environmental Scan:
Internal.
1) Strengths of the Program:
We have good support from administration and the Police Department staff is a professional, motivated team that supports the College's ideal of placing students first.  We have developed robust internal training programs covering Defensive Tactics, Firearms, Tazer, Active Shooter and other areas.
2) Weaknesses: 
The Butte College Police Department needs more staff to effectively patrol the campus properties, respond to calls for service, dispatch calls and respond to the needs of our college community.
External.
1) Opportunities:
The Butte College Police Department continues to work cooperatively with outside agencies for training and a coordinated response to emergencies.
2) Threats:
Addition of the Skyway Center, Cosmo and increased patrol presence at the Chico Center has spread staff thin.  We are seeing an increase in students with special needs or social problems.  We are also seeing a lack of respect for teachers and other authority figures which is contributing to poor behavior and class/campus disruptions.  We also continue to see increases in mental illness and drug use which negatively affect our students and staff.

Department Goals

1)  Our primary goal is always to ensure that the College is a safe, peaceful and comfortable place for students and staff.
2)  We will deter crime by continuing a visible presence on campus, fostering positive interactions with students and staff and through community outreach.
3)  We will continue to provide high quality training to Butte College staff and students.
4)  We will continue to provide high quality training to the Police Department staff through internal and external training resources.
5)  We will continue the effort to update interagency agreements.
6)  We will facilitate a trainings to practice the use of the new plan with the Crisis Response Team.

Future Development Strategies

Requested Non-Financial Resources

Current Financial Resources

Augmentation Requests