The University of Northumbria Security Service, part of Campus Services, aims to work with students, staff and visitors to provide a safe and secure residential and working environment. You can watch a short introduction to the service below.
Contact Campus Security:
- Emergency Number: 3200 (0191 227 3200) Please note, this number is for emergency use only.
- General Enquiries: 3999 (0191 227 3999)
- Email: CRSecurityTeams2@northumbria.ac.uk
What We Do:
- Protecting Staff, Students and Visitors
- Protecting research facilities, teaching facilities and accommodation
- Supporting pastoral care for students and staff
- Engaging with the wider community
- Supporting risk management and planning arrangements
- Promoting Crime awareness and preventing crime
- Implementing professional standards and good practice guidelines
- Communicating and liaising with Faculties and other service providers in the institution
- Disseminating management statistics, to inform decision making
How We Achieve Our Aims:
- The use of physical security measures, including building alarms, fire alarms, access control and CCTV
- Providing a 24 hour, 365 days a year staffed control room.
- The monitoring of and response to fire alarms, building alarms, intruder alarms, lift alarms and IT server room alarms
- Provision of a Crime Prevention Team for target hardening and supporting major and/or high profile events
- A one stop out of hours call point for dealing with all emergencies
- Provision of uniformed and plain clothes security officers
