Safety

University Police Services and residence hall staff take many steps to promote the safety of residents. Residents play a significant role to ensuring their own safety. UWW Police also provides an CSO and RHO program for the students. 

CSO

The CSO program is composed of approximately 50 student employees who have a goal of becoming better leaders in the community.

The UW-Whitewater Campus Service Officer (CSO) program serves as a resource to the students, faculty, staff, and visitors of the campus community. The CSO's provide proactive, paraprofessional and personable services through safety awareness, service and security.

The CSO's have a wide array of duties to include, but not limited to, checking building security, cross walk safety, building and parking lot patrols, safety escorts as well as vehicle lock outs and jump starts. The CSO's serve as a high visibility deterrence to crime while wearing their bright yellow shirts and jackets as a uniform and being another set of eyes are ears where Police Officers cannot be all the time.

RHO

The voluntary compliance of the individual is the only way the law is maintained. It is physically impossible and incongruent with a free society for the police to deter crime and enforce the law upon every citizen at all times. It is voluntary compliance which maintains order. Enforcement can only be used as a tool to educate, encourage and inform; it will not compel individual change.

Our philosophy on policing is simple, to gain voluntary compliance through the least restrictive method of intervention possible. Sometimes that may mean a citation or an arrest, but we police in a community of higher learning. It is our hope that through our law enforcement techniques, we teach our community to be better citizens and assist them to Live, Learn and Engage while attending UW-Whitewater.

The Residence Hall Officer (RHO) program assists in this philosophy by being available as a direct contact for students and staff in the residence halls. The two RHO's have an office on each side of campus respectively and are available to the community to answer questions, attend meetings, conduct programming and anything else they may be needed for. RHO's are the direct liaison between the UW-Whitewater Police Department and University Housing.