Virginia Administrative Code › Title 6 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONS › Agency 20 - DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES › Chapter 270 - REGULATIONS RELATING TO CAMPUS SECURITY OFFICERS › Section 6VAC20-270-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall
				  have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Approved instructor" means a person who has been approved by
				  the department to instruct the Campus Security Officer Training Course.
"Campus security officer" means any person employed by or
				  contracted to a college or university for the sole purpose of maintaining peace
				  and order and who is primarily responsible for ensuring the safety, security,
				  and welfare of students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Certified
				  law-enforcement officers as defined in § 9.1-101 of the Code of Virginia and
				  campus police officers appointed pursuant to § 23-233 of the Code of Virginia
				  are not included in this definition.
"Campus security point of contact" is the person designated
				  by the college, university, private security services business, or private
				  security services training school to serve as the contact person between the
				  department and the college, university, private security services business, or
				  private security services training school on matters concerning the
				  certification of campus security officers.
"Certification" means that a qualified person has met the
				  compulsory minimum entry-level training standards mandated for a campus
				  security officer.
"College or university" means an institution of higher
				  education created to educate and grant certificates or degrees in a variety of
				  subjects.
"Compulsory minimum entry-level training and certification
				  standards" means the compulsory training modules and other certification
				  requirements, determined by the department, to comprise the necessary training
				  and certification standards required as a basis for initial
				  certification.
"Contracted" means a person employed by a licensed private
				  security services business under contract to perform the functions of a campus
				  security officer.
"Date of hire" means the date an employee is hired to provide
				  campus security officer services for a college, university, or private security
				  services business, and whom the department must regulate.
"Department" means the Department of Criminal Justice
				  Services or any successor agency.
"Director" means the chief administrative officer of the
				  department.
"Employee" means a person providing campus security services
				  hired directly by the employing college or university or a person hired by a
				  licensed private security services business supplying campus security services
				  to the college or university on a contract basis.
"Entry-level training requirement" means the compulsory
				  modules determined by the department to comprise the necessary training
				  required as a basis for certification.
"In-service training requirement" means the compulsory
				  in-service training requirement adopted by the department for campus security
				  officers.
"Private security services business" or "PSS" means any
				  person engaged in the business of providing, or who undertakes to provide,
				  security officers to another person under contract, express, or implied as
				  defined in § 9.1-138 of the Code of Virginia.
"Private security services training school" means any person
				  certified by the department to provide instruction in private security subjects
				  for the training of private security service business personnel in accordance
				  with this chapter.
"Special events" means those events at which large numbers of
				  people gather on campus or at college or university facilities creating a need
				  for additional or specialized security actions.
"This chapter" means the Regulations Relating to Campus
				  Security Officers.
"Training requirement" means any entry-level or in-service
				  training or retraining standard established by this chapter.
Statutory Authority
§ 9.1-102 of the Code of
					 Virginia.