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Acommunity oriented Police Departmentaccomplishes these goals through educationand enforcement.This pro-active department employs 26 swornfull-time officers. The UC Police Officers, whohave statewide jurisdiction, maintain 24 houruniformed patrol on foot, bicycle, and motorvehicles. Officers engage in crime prevention,handling calls for service, investigating crimes,and taking appropriate action. Paramedics andemergency medical technicians provide lifesupportservices 24 hours a day. Both the policeand paramedics are dispatched through theCommunications Unit located in the PublicSafety Building. Communications also handlesall campus 911 calls.Assisting the Police Department is theCommunity Service Organization which employs50 students. The students act as the eyes andears for the Police Department. They alsoregister bikes, collect lost and found, andprovide escorts for students.The Police Department works with theWomen’s Center Rape Prevention EducationProgram. Due to the Police Department’sinnovative and pro-active stance, the 1994 reportfrom Crime at College lists UC Santa Barbara asone of the safest university campuses.Visitor CenterThe Visitor Center is located on the ground floorof the Student Affairs Administrative ServicesBuilding (SAASB), Room 1102A. A component ofthe Office of Admissions and Outreach Services,the Visitor Center offers one-hour FreshmanAdmissions presentations on weekdays at 11a.m., and hour-long walking tours at 12 noonand 2 p.m., excluding holidays. SaturdayAdmission presentations at 11 a.m. andSaturday tours at noon are only offered inOctober and April. Transfer Advising sessionsare held each Thursday and Friday at 1 p.m.,excluding holidays.Website: www.admit.ucsb.edu/vcen/Women’s CenterThe Women’s Center is a place where peoplework to understand the changing roles ofwomen and men and to expand the educational,professional, and personal opportunitiesfor women. The Center challenges sexism,racism, heterosexism, and classism, and otherbarriers that inhibit women’s inclusion and equalpower. The Women’s Center provides a climatein which women can celebrate and cultivatetheir common strengths as well as recognizetheir rich cultural and individual differences.Services the center provides include: rape andsexual harassment prevention education, crisiscounseling and advocacy for anyone affected bysexual violence, an art gallery, research library,lectures, films, workshops, support groups,services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgenderstudents, and a re-entry/non-traditional studentlounge. A quarterly calendar of activities isavailable.The Women’s Center welcomes both womenand men, students, faculty, staff, and communitymembers.The center is located in Building 434. 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Thecomplete UCSB campus safety report, Dedicatedto the Safety of Our Community: TheClery Act Campus Security Report, includingcampus crime statistics, campus policies andsubstance abuse, sexual harassment, and sexualassault complaint procedures is available on-lineat www.sa.ucsb.edu/policies/CleryActCampusSecurityReport.htm or you canrequest a copy by calling the Office of StudentLife at (805) 893-7884.This information is made available in accordancewith the “Jeanne Clery Disclosure ofCampus Security Policy and Campus CrimeStatistics Act,” formerly the “Student Right toKnow and Campus Security Act.” The web sitecontains information regarding campus securityand personal safety including topics such as:crime prevention, university police law enforcementauthority, crime reporting policies,disciplinary procedures and other matters ofimportance related to security on campus. Theweb site contains information about crimestatistics for the three previous calendar yearsconcerning reported crimes that occurred oncampus; in certain off-campus buildings orproperty owned or controlled by UCSB; and onpublic property within, or immediately adjacentto and accessible from the campus.This information is required by law, providedby the Office of Student Life and the campusPolice Department, and upholds the campusbelief that a well-informed community is betterserved and safer. UC Santa Barbara makescontinual efforts to reduce crime on campus andsupports a reporting philosophy that encouragesvictims or witnesses to report all incidentsimmediately to either the UCSB Police oranonymously to a Campus Security Authority.However, in cases of sexual assault, theUniversity recognizes that reporting to lawenforcement is a personal decision and respectsthe right of the survivor to make that decision.