Vanderbilt University PD improves campus security with DFR
At Vanderbilt University, public safety means protecting 12,000 students across a 300-acre campus during everyday operations and high-traffic moments like football games and commencement. Chief of Police and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Public Safety Tommye Sutton explains how Drone as First Responder helps their officers gain situational awareness faster, to help inform safer, more effective decisions.
Police Inspector and Chief Security Officer Patrick Conwell notes that this visibility also supports faster, clearer communication with the campus community, helping students, staff, and visitors protect themselves. Response times on campus have been reduced by several minutes to an average of 80 seconds since the program launched.
- The 12,000 students here at Vanderbilt will have approximately 300 acres of
- campus, whether
- it be for moving day or commencement, their last day and last week on campus,
- using drone
- as first responder allows us to make sure we keep them safe their entire time
- here.
- The average response time for our drones is about 80 seconds.
- Even the fastest officer could take several minutes longer than that to respond
- .
- Having the ability to have real time eyes on the scene as officers respond is
- not only
- invaluable to the officers responding, but the communication that we're able to
- send
- to the community to help protect themselves.
- Drone and first responder will allow us to get that situation awareness from a
- factual
- standpoint much much quicker and be reliable and educate our officers as they
- respond to
- assist the community.
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