University Daily Kansan, October 26, 1984
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HOMECOMING
Fans' safety is ensured by law enforcement coordination
By JAMES STROHMAIER Staff Reporter
Long before Memorial Stadium is filled with 30,000 to 50,000 football fans, police officers from the area's fire department and security sure tomorrow's game is a safe one.
Officials from all four departments say the key to a safe football game is coordination. That, said James Denney, director of the University of Kansas Police Department, is the success of security measures.
Three main concerns of police officials during game days are traffic control to and from the stadium, crowd control within the stadium and normal police activities. Denney said.
THE SECURITY OPERATION at games is controlled from a command post in the press box, Denney said. The command post is operated by Denney and a KU police lieutenant, along with representatives from the three other law enforcement departments.
From the time the command post opens at 8 a.m. until the streets are safely cleared after the game, everything that happens in the stadium and in Lawrence passes through the command post, Denney said.
"People at the command post know pretty much everything that is going
on in the city of Lawrence," he said. Officers from KU police, the Lawrence Police Department, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department and the Kansas Highway Patrol work together to control the 8,000 to 10,000 cars traveling through the city in search of parking.
EACH DEPARTMENT HAS a different responsibility. The Highway Patrol monitors I-70 Kansas Turnpike into the city; county and police direct traffic through Lawrence and KU police controls the campus and monitors parking.
Streets on campus operate under normal traffic laws before the game, except for Memorial Drive, which is closed.
After the game Mississippi Street is blocked from Baumgartner Lane by the Kansas University to 11th Street; Jayhawk Boulevard is blocked from Mississippi Street to West Campus Road; and 11th Street is blocked from Mississippi Street to Maine Street.
Also, Mississippi Street becomes a one-way street from Baugartner Lane to Sunnyside Drive, and 11th Street becomes a one-way street from Main Street until it turns into Naishtown Drive. A one-way to Naismith Drive. Naismith Drive is one-way until it runs into Sunnyside Avenue.
have is security for the Homecoming Parade this afternoon.
Police direct traffic away from the parade, which goes down Jayhawk Boulevard from Oread Avenue to the Chi Omega fountain.
FOR HOMECOMING, THE only additional responsibility the police
Police also assist in dispersing the parade after it is over. Floats are directed down Naismith Drive to the O-zone parking lot south of Robinson Gymnasium where they will be displayed until the game tomorrow.
KU police assist in safety inspections of floats. They also provide
Denney said the basic police unit in the stands was the uniformed officer who monitored a particular area of the stadium by keeping watch for the advances in the crowd and any medical emergencies which might arise.
maintaining security within the stadium, he said.
Two more groups are used as response teams to specific problems that occur during the game. One team is called a VIP, and details for VIPs that visit the
The three main concerns of police officials during game days are traffic control to and from the stadium, crowd control within the stadium and normal police activities.
James Denney, director of the University of Kansas Police Department
a patrol car in front and in back of the parade as a safety precaution for the 300 to 400 people who participate in the parade.
Denney said that in addition to traffic control, crowd control in and around the stadium was another concern.
concern.
OFFICERS FROM THE four departments staff four separate groups to handle crowd control. Each group has different responsibilities, but all share the responsibility of
University is comprised of one to three plain-clothes officers.
The other response team is a group of uniformed officers who handle specific emergencies that require an identifiable officer, Denney said. In this year's game against Iowa State, for instance, the group was sent to handle a possible car burglary in a stadium parking lot.
THE LAST SECURITY group is made up of 20 to 30 officers from the Lawrence Police Department, the
Sheriff's Department and the Highway Patrol who are seated in the stadium and are used as back-ups. They usually are those officers who directed traffic before the game.
Denney said videotaping from the command post was another security method.
Since 1978, KU police have used videotaping for evidence if a disturbance should lead to violations of the law or arrests, he said.
However, Denney said cameras did not videotape randomly. He said they were used only after a confrontation had been identified.
"If tapes are not used for their evidentiary value, they are erased the next day," he said.
In addition to the officers in the stands, some are under the stands as security for concession stands and at the gates.
TICKETS ARE TAKEN by a private services group, Manpower Temporary Services. They are hired through the athletic department to work games, according to Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director.
About 50 people from Manpower take tickets and act as ushers for the football games. They also check to make sure people don't bring alcoholic beverages, plastic containers or coolers into the stadium, but are not responsible for confiscating illegal items.
small thermos bottles into the stadium, Temple said.
If a disturbance breaks out at the gate, the Manpower employee radius a police officer under the stadium to assist. If the person contuives to bother the officer, he can be denied entrance to the game.
ANOTHER RESPONSIBILITY of police during the games is handling medical emergencies, Denney said.
However, fans are allowed to bring
"Most of our business is medical emergencies — people falling, people breathing, people coughing."
Chuck Belote, KU's coordinator of medical facilities at the games and supervisor of emergency Spectator Watch, said police acted as the eyes for the medical teams and reported the crimes and the nature of the emergency.
At least two doctors and nurses, 115 trained medical personnel and the Douglas County Ambulance Service are stationed in and around the county. They provide medical problems that occur during an average football game, he said.
HOWEVER, SOME EMERGENCIES such as heart attacks, broken limbs from falls and injuries from fights require additional medical services, he said.
He said that problems ranged from bee stings to heat exhaustion to falls, which usually are treatable in the stadium.
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