Bellevue College:

Public Safety Dept.

By: Group 6- Adda Lee, Alina Zasimczuk, Michelle
Reyes, Durete Mohamed, Melody Sierra
 Biographical Information

Location: Bellevue, WA Other Roles:

Size: ~32,000 Students ~20 Public -Officer
Safety Staff/ Officer -Sergeant
Organization: Bellevue college -Admin
Department: Public safety -Director
Division:Emergency management -Assistant Director
-Emergency Management
Role:Program coordinator
Coordinator
Ex. fire inspector-changes, trauma
-Program Coordinator
training,
Age: January 1966

Source: Public Safety

 Mission Statement

Public Safety staff are trained and instructed in non-violent crisis intervention
skills, allowing them to avoid and defuse most confrontational situations.

The BC Public Safety Department acts as the first responder for all criminal
incidents, provides general patrol of campus facilities and property, investigates
collisions, manages traffic safety and parking, coordinates emergency
preparedness planning, and provides crime prevention programs. The department
responds to all reports of fire and/or medical aid while working in support of the
Bellevue Fire Department (BFD).

Source: Public Safety

 Performance Appraisal System

Department of Public Safety

Appraisal System: Subjective Measure- Graphic Rating Form
Annual Review
ex: how well they do with students or coworkers
Feedback on performance

Spector, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

 Subjective measures

nsio ns
n D im e
Cr i t eri o

Managerial Skills:
Delegating tasks
Creativity- Problem-Solving skills
Takes Initiative
Meets Deadlines
Teamwork
 Training
Potential Types of Training Utilized
The EOC (Emergency Operations Coordinator) is also responsible for assisting with other safety related
training programs as needed

The department has an Emergency Operations Officer (EOC) specifically in charge of providing emergency
preparedness training

On the job training:

Mentoring: officers get assigned to trainees and train hands-on
ex: communication skills, interview techniques, learn techniques for non-violent crisis response

Simulations:
ex: fire drills, active shooter drills, earthquake
emergency response for major incidents including Weather Conditions, Earthquake, Medical
Emergency, Power Failure, Fire, Evacuation Procedures, Acts of Violence, Hazardous Substances, Bomb
Threats, Weapons Use, or Threats
Electronic Training
Training modules for Title IX are offered online through the website Lawroom.com
Campus Security Authority Training:
Basic foundational knowledge
Tests/Quizzes at end of training (Graded)
 Training Examples

Canvas, Bellevue College 2021

 Motivation Strategies

Equity Theory:
Due to it being a government job, there is no incentive system, for legal
reasons. An incentive system would be seen as bribery, biased and unfair
by other employees in other departments.

Goal setting theory:

Goal is not necessarily to prevent emergency
Organizational goal is to follow procedures correctly, efficiently with no
misconduct. The reward is a staff rewarded self funded “party”/ social.
 Recommendations

Appraisal System:
1. Objective Measures
2. Administer 360 feedback

Training:
1. Implement retraining annually
2. Pretest-posttest design on training modules

Motivation:
1. Control Theory

“360-degree feedback is a full circle

system of obtaining information from peers,
subordinates, and internal and external
Dr.Manish, Performance Appraisal
customers, about the employee's performance.
360-degree assessment is based on the
assessment of an individual's management
styles, competencies and behaviour by
colleagues horizontally and vertically by
involving his boss, peers and direct reports in
the organization. “ (Manish, Performance
Appraisal)
 Objective measures of job performance

Performance: Measure:
Incentive:
Absences Days absent per year
-Pay raise
-Promotion
-Funding/money/grant
Accidents Number of accidents per
towards department
year -Board Committee recognition

Incidents at work (e.g Number of incidents per

vehicle collisions) year

Lateness Days late per year

Productivity Amount of reports filed

Spector, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Develop Criteria: Training Recommendation:
Level Criteria
We want to know whether Training Evaluation
people learned anything from
the training in the training
environment

Design: Pretest-Posttest
Design
1. Pretest trainees on the
Canvas modules and
lawroom.com knowledge 3. Post-test trainees after Collect Data:
and how it will be completing canvas pretest and posttest
implemented on job modules and scores from
lawroom.com trainees

2. Training Delivery: electronic

training on canvas modules
and lawroom.com
Analyze and Interpret Results:
Compare pretest and post-test
scores to analyze whether
pretesting trainees before
electronic training is an
effective method of training
 Motivation Strategies: Research and Theory

Control Theory vs Action theory

Action theory-individualistic=defines tasks
from individuals (external tasks & Internal
tasks)

ex. fire drill evacuate under 3 min.

Figure 8-3, Control Theory, Spector, Industrial and Organizational

Psychology
 References

Dr.Manish “Performance Appraisal”.Industrial Psychology,

http://ip2012.blogspot.com/2012/03/performance-appraisal.html Accessed
15, February 2021

Spector, Paul E. (2016) “Industrial and Organizational Psychology”

(Seventh Edition. Wiley)

“Public Safety”. Bellevue College,

https://www.bellevuecollege.edu/publicsafety/ccessed 15, February 2021