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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us February 11, 2006 Medford's S.W.A.T team helps SOU senior student Jimmy Johnson , left, senior Charles Comer, center, junior Jim Mahar along with students from the criminology department simulate a search and secure. Orville Hector | Ashland Daily Tidings Plenty To Do Activities students could participate in at the fifth-annual SOU Lock-In on Friday: ORPAT : Students run the Oregon Physical Agility Test, a timed activity that simulates chasing, fighting and apprehending a suspect. Students run the same obstacle course law enforcement recruits at state police academy have to complete. K-9 Patrol : Students learn how to use a police dog as a tool in a search — including where and under what circumstances it is legal to use the dog — and then search a car. Polygraph : Law enforcement officials explain the importance of asking certain questions during an interrogation, then students try out the lie detector machine themselves. Range 3000 : The simulation forces students to make quick decisions in high-stress situations. Disney invented the training method, now nicknamed “shoot-don’t shoot,” to help Los Angeles police officers be better prepared for the job. SWAT : Students suit up for a simulated raid in the basement of Taylor Hall. Felony Hot Stops: Law enforcement officials teach students how to pull over a vehicle to arrest the driver on a felony warrant. The stop includes taking the person out of the vehicle at gunpoint and handcuffing him. DUII Simulation : Students put on goggles that change their vision and make them feel like they’re drunk, then go through field sobriety tests. Law enforcement officials also show a PowerPoint presentation of gruesome drunk driving accidents. Defensive Tactics/Ground Fighting : Students learn how to take custody of someone, including how to put on handcuffs and how to take control when the suspect fights back. SOURCE : SOU criminology professor Lee Ayers Schlosser Cop for a day Lock-In at SOU lets students experience real-life situations By Jennifer Squires Ashland Daily Tidings The SWAT team raided the basement of Taylor Hall at Southern Oregon University on Friday. No, it wasn’t an actual standoff with hostages and weapons. The raid, which several SOU students in SWAT gear participated in, was one of eight activities available to participants in the fifth-annual SOU Lock-In. “It’s just been an experience that we can’t provide in a classroom, in a textbook or in an exam,” said Marny Rivera, an assistant professor of criminology theory and policy at the university. More than 60 students — including several from a private school in Phoenix — took part in the day-long event that began with physical agility testing at 10 a.m. and wrapped up with a dinner and debriefing Friday night. Criminology professor Lee Ayers Schlosser and the SOU Criminology Club started the program in 2002 to take students beyond the theory and textbook knowledge taught in the classroom. “She just worked on it with the people she knew,” Rivera said. “They volunteered that first year and every year since then.” The program introduces them to the day-to-day work of law enforcement officials through hands-on activities. Officials from the Ashland and Medford police departments, and other local agencies, brought their actual training gear to give students an idea of the requirements to enter into law enforcement and what the job is like. “[It’s] simulated activity that gives our students a better understanding of what it would be like working out there in our field,” Rivera said. And students love the chance to get out of the classroom and into activities that mirror what they might do after graduation. “The things they say have really inspired us to keep going,” Ayers said. The event also helps the law enforcement officials who volunteer their time to come the university. Some even use it toward the amount of training they need to have each month. “Because many of them have done it before or their supervisors have done it before, they look forward to it,” Rivera said. Some also take the opportunity to check out the criminology students who might become new recruits after graduation. The Lock-In helps those agencies in their hiring processes later, both Ayers and Rivera said. A significant number of SOU criminology graduates go on to law-enforcement and corrections work, many locally. “We love to see it when we go out in the field and we have students that do their practicum, they often get hired on and stay in the community,” Rivera said. The feedback from those law-enforcement officials has been “we just turn out really star students,” Rivera said. A CSI event preceded the Lock-In on Feb. 3. The CSI class used to be an activity included in the Lock-In, but because of the program’s popularity and its time needs, this year it became an independent event. The hands-on event put students inside a fake crime scene to collect evidence such as hair and fingerprints. Local law enforcement officials explained what investigators look for when processing a crime scene and the event wrapped up with a mock courtroom where the evidence had to be defended. “The students had a really great time,” Rivera said. Staff writer Jennifer Squires can be reached at 482-3456 x 225 or [email protected]. DailyTidings.com Home Page Archives | Revels | Classifieds | Real Estate Guide | Weather | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2005 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Deep Muscle Stimulator Ceramic Piggy Banks FREE Entertainment Guide Women's & Men's Slippers Accelerate Weightloss Products Backpacks Online Pharmacy Vegas Travel Guide Search Engine Optimization Student Loans Hotel & Airline Reservations Hammocks Water Filter Helzberg Diamonds Online Casinos Community Bonus Casino Mortgage Calculator Security Systems Mailing Lists Click Here Advertisement .:Advertisements:. Site Search: RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams