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| Points | What the answer usually means |
|---|---|
| 2 | In place, written down and kept up. |
| 1 | Partly in place, informal, or only some of the time. |
| 0 | Not in place, or you don't know. |
| Band | Score | Points | What it means | Typical next move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong foundation | 80–100 | 20–24 | Plans are written, practiced and kept up across the campus. | Keep it honest with a late-night walk, partner exercises and a yearly reassessment. |
| Building | 50–79 | 12–19 | Key pieces exist but vary by building, shift or department. | Make night, weekend and break practice match the daytime plan, starting with your two lowest areas. |
| Getting started | Under 50 | 0–11 | Core pieces are missing or informal across the campus. | Start with the low-cost fixes: written plans, shared maps and set review schedules. |
Good practice: A lit, signed late-night route connects the library, the main residence halls and the largest garage. Facilities walks it at night once a month with a public safety supervisor and closes lighting tickets within days.
Common gap: The shortest path from the library to the residence halls runs behind a building, past a loading dock with a broken light, and it's the route most residents take after midnight.
Good practice: Every hall entry has a card reader, exit-only doors sound a local alarm, and the residence life duty phone has a direct line to the police shift supervisor. Lounges and laundry rooms are on the duty rounds at set times each night.
Common gap: A side door near the parking lot is propped most nights, and the laundry room in the basement isn't on anyone's rounds.
Good practice: The night shift supervisor has a one-page map of the overnight beats and the hours each building is open. Beats change at the start of each term, and the department checks garage theft reports each month to adjust rounds.
Common gap: The overnight beat was set years ago, before the new residence hall and the late-night study space opened, and the far garage gets one visit a night.
Good practice: Every home game has a one-page plan with gates, staging, command roles and a shared radio channel for campus police, city police and contract security. A short after-action meeting follows each game, and fixes go into the next plan.
Common gap: The stadium plan is solid, but nobody planned the walk back to the residence halls, where a crowd forms at the same shuttle stop after every game.
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Next step
A self-assessment shows you where your campus stands on paper. A professional walk-through tests it on the ground, with your police and public safety leads.
M6 Global Defense's facility security assessment covers physical security, technology systems, emergency preparedness and operational procedures, and M6 also supports event security planning. Mike Matranga and the M6 Global Defense team walk your campus with your police and public safety leads. Mike is the Founder and CEO of M6 Global Defense and an advisor to VOLT. He is a former U.S. Secret Service Special Agent who served on the Presidential Protective Division and later as Assistant Team Leader on the Counter Assault Team.
Bring your completed scorecard. It gives the walk-through a starting point: your two lowest areas and the questions you scored 0.
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