“Eventually I learned that I had a gift for balance. I’m able to accept the situation, be a professional, demand respect and give respect in return.”
~(Cheryl Elliot)~
November 29, 2004
Good Lieutenant
BY Eric Rangus
On Nov. 6, Cheryl Elliott received the George B. Sunderland Practitioner of the Year–Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Crime Prevention Practitioners at its 25th annual symposium, held this year in Scottsdale, Ariz.
According to its description, the award recognizes significant contributions made by outstanding crime prevention practitioners whose dedication and enthusiasm for crime prevention has positively impacted the quality of life for others.
“Lifetime?” said Elliott, a lieutenant with the Emory Police Department (EPD), picking out one of the words on her award. “This is not the end of my life, is it? Have I gotten so old? That’s a little scary.”
Elliott, who has worked at Emory for 15 years, was promoted to lieutenant in 1996 and assigned to EPD’s crime prevention unit, a six-member team she now heads. As such, Elliott is EPD’s point person not only for helping the Emory community detect, deter, delay and deny crime (as she says), but also in fostering a strong relationship between EPD and Emory’s faculty, staff and students.
While she is perhaps EPD’s most visible officer, Elliott frequently wears civilian clothes, even when she staffs events such as the recent freshman semi-formal. She is able to mix authority with approachability.
“My responsibility is to be a community contact,” she said, adding that for formal occasions, such as Commencement, she does wear her uniform. “That means we try to get involved with the activities that are going on. It’s not about staffing as much as it is about participating.”
Nowhere is Elliott’s community policing concept more apparent than through the Emory Watch program. Elliott created Emory Watch, the umbrella under which all EPD’s crime prevention programs fall, in 1996. Based on neighborhood watch programs that are popular across the country, Emory Watch provides information on creating a safe workplace, dealing with workplace violence, domestic violence or sexual assault, underage drinking, and a host of other issues.
Three years ago, Elliott took community relations even further when “public information officer” was added to her title. She not only works with reporters (often students) who write about crime on campus, but also serves as a resource for the Emory community—for victims of crime and anyone else who deals with EPD.
Elliott’s work extends beyond campus as well. She has several stories about Emory employees, faculty and even alumni who have contacted her with problems outside of work—such as being stalked, which has happened on more than one occasion. She isn’t able to do anything personally, but she can point them in the right direction by providing law enforcement contacts.
“I can be a resource who can give people the information they need to solve a problem,” Elliott said. That knowledge comes from 24 years’ experience as a university law enforcement officer. Elliott first came to Emory in 1988, then left in 1990 after going back to school with ideas of starting a teaching career. In fall 1991, she returned after she realized the University provided all the students she could want.
Elliott began her law enforcement career in 1975 as an officer with the Georgia State University (GSU) police department. She was GSU’s first female to work overnights (her shift was 11 p.m.–7 a.m.), and she had her share of issues to deal with, far beyond keeping the streets safe on the downtown Atlanta campus.
Two male officers transferred off the shift rather than serve with a woman. She was not allowed to go out by herself. Even after being promoted to supervisor, a backup officer often would be assigned to Elliott when she responded to calls, including those as routine as a fire alarm. For her first year-and-a-half on the job, she didn’t tell her father she was a police officer. Elliott told him she was a dispatcher and when she visited him, she hid her weapon in the trunk of her car.
“Eventually I learned that I had a gift for balance,” Elliott said, discussing how she settled on a career in law enforcement. “I’m able to accept the situation, be a professional, demand respect and give respect in return.”
Respect is something Elliott doesn’t lack at Emory. For instance, in 1995 she was named EPD Officer of the Year. She also has received awards from the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services for her diversity work, and in 2002 she was named an Unsung Heroine by the Center for Women. Not that Elliott is all that unsung. The student newspaper, The Emory Wheel, has named her one of the 10 best people to know on campus each of the last three years.
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Crime Prevention
Emory Police Crime Prevention is responsible for carrying out the mission of the Emory Police department in their efforts to anticipate, appraise and recognize crime risks. Crime Prevention is committed to develop programs to reduce the opportunity for crime, minimize the consequences of incidents which occur and address vulnerabilities in our community. Officers in Crime Prevention accomplish this by specializing in using community policing philosophy and problem solving models to assist in reducing incidents of person to person crimes, property, vehicular, burglary and theft. Crime Prevention works to develop relationships with the community to identify vulnerable areas where criminal activity may occur. Members of Crime Prevention are specifically assigned responsibility for developing relationships with the undergraduate division students of the university and developing relationships with the student leadership to provide educational support and programs to provide risk reduction techniques. Crime Prevention can be reached by phone at 404.727.2453 or by email.
Criminal Investigations
Case Assignment
Solvability factors are used to determine if a case is assigned. Some of these factors are; clear descriptions that will identify the perpetrator(s), license tag information, direct knowledge of who committed the crime, physical evidence that can identify the perpetrator(s) or witnesses who are able to identify the perpetrator(s). There may be other factors that will also be used to determine assignment.
When a case is assigned, the investigator will contact the victim as soon as possible after receiving the assignment. During the course of the investigation, the investigator will maintain contact with the victim and update them on the progress of the case. When a final resolution is reached, the investigator will contact the victim and advise them of the final disposition.
Citizens who are victims of crimes are encouraged to contact Criminal Investigations if they become aware of additional information that was not given to the officer at the time of the report.
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“The award says ‘lifetime achievement,’ but it really should say ‘lifetime achievement up to now.’ Cheryl has a long way to go in her career. We’re like a family here, and we really would be lost without her.”
~(EPD Chief Craig Watson)~
Craig T. Watson
Chief of Police
cwats02@emory.edu
404.727.6115
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:18:16 -0800
From: James Avery <jeaverydvm87@att.net>
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Subject: THE MOUSE RAN UP THE CLOCK: AN INTERVENTION
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(H)ear Sister Beth, Sister Beverley, and Sister Jill,
Hoping the three of you would be kind enough getting in touch with each other and try and letting this meeting happening. There is even a suggesting, as a way, opting out of this meeting; or insisting them suffering along with you.
Of course there are other options as well I have no control over; for example, this active file under my name with the Emory Police unable even getting them sharing with me...?
So much for...crime...prevention.
I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses,
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,
The Son of God discloses.
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
It's actually more of a testimonial than an intervention.
"I CAN OF MY OWN SELF DO NOTHING: AS i SENSE, i JUDGE : AND MY JUDGMENT IS JUST; NOT BECAUSE i SEEK THE WILL OF MY OWN BUT THE WILL OF THY FATHER (nothing more than our collective unconsciousness) WHICH HATH SENT ME."
One I'm sure you know me well enough by now, already, dreaded even opening this email just to see..."what now?!"
How many women does it take to change a light bulb?
THREE!
ONE TO CHANGE THE BULB AND TWO TO FORM A SUPPORT GROUP!
The actual request is within the blog article just now finishing. Click on the following link seeing the details.
http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2015/01/three-blind-mice-wikipedia-free.html
THE SiXTH SENSE
"HIS IS HEARING IMPAIRED!
BE CAREFUL.
TAO~g(HE)d~OG
CAN BE
VERBALLY AGGRESSIVE."
JOHN 5:30 (KiNG jAMES REVISED VERSION)
In the meantime, here another question for you to ponder as I wonder...wander...wonder...wander; suppose both would works:
What does God's silence in the penultimacy mean and do for you would do the same for me should I choose letting God doing so?
Sincerely yours,
James E. Avery, DVM
~(Simply Jim: Antichrist, Armilus, Dajjal)~
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