In addition to the Night Escort Service, Community Service Officers provide high-visibility, uniformed patrol of the campus. This includes, but is not limited to, the student residential facilities, the central campus, and the Memorial Stadium. These patrols are conducted during the evening hours. The CSO Program conducts a selection process for new CSO's each semester. Paid positions are announced through advertisement in the Daily Californian, and posted flyers.
Applications are typically due early and mid-fall semester as well as early in the spring semester.
Newly hired CSO's spend three to four weeks in training, during which time they are taught the required police codes and campus geography, as well as how to keep themselves and their escorts safe. Applications are available in our display at 1 Sproul Hall. SPO's act as a liaison between UC Police and facility building managers by observing, reacting to, and promptly reporting developments that may affect campus safety. In addition to their duties at assigned facilities, SPO's also provide ad hoc security, traffic control, and crowd control for sporting events, concerts, social events, demonstrations and campus wide emergencies. The Berkeley Campus is generally open to the public, although individual buildings differ with regard to the hours they are open.