Walters State Community College

Campus Police Department

Chief Sarah Rose,
Director of Campus Police & Emergency Preparedness

The Walters State Community College Campus Police Department is responsible for the safety and security of students, staff, faculty and visitors as well as all institutional properties.

The department consists of seven full time officers and eighteen temporary part-time on-call officers. All campus police personnel are state certified law enforcement officers in the state of Tennessee through the Peace Officer’s Standards and Training Commission and have full arrest and investigative powers on Walters State properties. Each officer has attended either the East Tennessee Regional Law Enforcement Basic Police Recruit School at Walters State or the Donelson Police Academy in Nashville.  In addition, each officer attends 40 hours of police in-service training each year to maintain certification and P.O.S.T. standards. Officers are on duty 24 hours per day, 365 days per year to deter crime, develop community relations and respond to calls for service and assistance as needed.

The Campus Police Department, on the main campus in Morristown, Tennessee is located in the Information Center at the front entrance to the campus.  Offices are also located on the Greeneville and Sevierville campuses.

The Campus Police Office is open, on the main campus, for walk-in service, as staffing allows, from 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. You may contact Campus Police as follows:

                                       Morristown at  423-585-6752 or e-mail at Sarah.Rose@ws.edu

                                       Greeneville at 423-798-7961 or e-mail at Ronald.Dixon@ws.edu

                                       Sevierville at 865-774-5813 or e-mail at Steven.Moyer@ws.edu

Statement of Pupose

The purpose of the Campus Police Department is to effectively provide police services to the institution, its faculty, staff, students, and all visitors to the campus.  The Campus Police Division is responsible for maintaining security of all Walters State buildings and properties, enforcement of campus rules and regulations as set forth by the Tennessee Board of Regents, and enforcement of state and local laws as governed by the State of Tennessee.  It is the intent of the Department to provide quality police services by maintaining the highest ideals of honesty, integrity and sound judgment while recognizing both our duty to protect and serve.

Vision Statement

The Walters State Community College Campus Police Department shall strive to ensure law enforcement services provided to the institution are of the highest standards. Our expressed intent is to provide quality services by maintaining the highest ideals of honesty, integrity and sound judgment while recognizing both our duty to protect and serve.

Code of Ethics

As a law enforcement officer, my fundamental duty is to serve mankind; to safeguard lives and property, protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder, and to respect the Constitutional rights of all men to liberty, equality and justice.

I will keep my private life unsullied as an example to all; maintain courageous calm in the face of danger, scorn or ridicule; develop self-restraint; and be constantly mindful of the welfare of others. Honest in thought and deed in both my personal and official life, I will be exemplary in obeying the laws of the land and the regulations of my department. Whatever I see or hear of a confidential nature or that is confided to me in my official capacity will be kept ever secret unless revelation is necessary in the performance of my duty.

I will never act officiously or permit personal feelings, prejudices, animosities, or friendships to influence my decisions. With no compromise for crime and with relentless prosecution of criminals, I will enforce the law courteously and appropriately without fear or favor, malice or ill will, never employing unnecessary force or violence and never accepting gratuities.

I recognize the badge of my office as a symbol of public faith, and I accept it as a public trust to be held so long as I am true to the ethics of the police service. I will constantly strive to achieve these objectives and ideals, dedicating myself before God to my chosen profession……..law enforcement.