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Crime Prevention

The primary responsibility for the programs and services of the Crime Prevention Unit rests with Assistant Director Caroline Krause. The goal of the unit is to increase community awareness about the risk of campus crime through crime prevention services, tips, and alerts and to generate a sense of personal responsibility in each individual to remove or reduce criminal opportunities.

You may e-mail the Caroline at krausec@elmhurst.edu or call at (630) 617-3291.

Crime Prevention Services

The Office of Campus Security makes every effort to see that criminal activity does not occur on campus; however, not all crime can be prevented. When a crime does occur, officers file a report immediately and begin working on ways to prevent the same incident from recurring.

The Assistant Director goes to each residence hall every term, discusses security procedures and practices, personal and community safety, any problem students may have, and means to satisfactorily resolve them. It is important that all students know they must always be responsible for their personal safety and aware of their surroundings.

Preventive measures can be taken to keep students from endangering themselves and others. The Office of Campus Security takes all of these measures seriously.

The following are just a few of the services offered:

• Provides crime prevention publications, literature and materials to the Elmhurst College community.
• Does crime prevention presentations before Elmhurst College organizations, departments and groups on a variety of topics.
• Conducts personal property inventories and engraving upon request. This is instrumental in recovering stolen property.
• Provides timely information of current criminal activity to the community through Crime Alerts
• Notifies organizations, departments and individuals of security violations that pose a crime risk

Campus Security Main Number (630) 617-3000