Old Dominion hires new police chief from Rutgers

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By Bill Sizemore
The Virginian-Pilot
© January 7, 2012

NORFOLK

Rhonda Harris has been selected as Old Dominion University's new police chief, the university announced Friday.

Harris comes to ODU from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., the flagship campus of New Jersey's state university system, where she has been police chief since 2006. She began her law enforcement career in 1985 as a police officer in El Reno, Okla.

At ODU, Harris will oversee a force of nearly 130 police officers, security guards and civilian personnel. Her responsibilities will include crime prevention programs, 24-hour campuswide patrols, safety escort services, and emergency preparedness and response operations.

She has a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in public administration from Rutgers, and a master's degree in forensic psychology from John Jay College.

She replaces Rudolph Burwell, who retired in June after a 40-year law enforcement career.

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Police Chief

Submitted by Dog Tag on Fri, 01/06/2012 at 10:51 pm.

Maybe ODU's new Police Chief will make a push for gun owners who have a CCW permit to have their handgun on campus with them. With the streets of Norfolk so full of DIRTBAGS. The honest man or woman can't take anymore chances at putting their lives at risk. Now that we have Norfolk Police Officers spending all their time riding the Tide.

Good luck

Submitted by Mrs. Feldman on Fri, 01/06/2012 at 11:19 pm.

She's from New Jersey.

She

Submitted by jld30182 on Sat, 01/07/2012 at 11:29 am.

is from Oklahoma... but worked in New Jersey I believe.

What's the salary?

Submitted by Lores on Fri, 01/06/2012 at 4:46 pm.

What's the salary?

Dir, Public Safety/Chief Salary

Submitted by RicknChes on Fri, 01/06/2012 at 5:14 pm.

$100,000 / year

Ref: http://www.collegiatetimes.com/databases/salaries/old-dominion-2011?dept=police

thanks

Submitted by Lores on Fri, 01/06/2012 at 6:18 pm.

thanks

It's not the school or the

Submitted by mm12175 on Fri, 01/06/2012 at 4:45 pm.

It's not the school or the students that are the problem. It's the surrounding neighborhoods and the predators that are allowed to roam free. That's the City of Norfolk's problem, not ODU's. And it's a shame that higher education funding (and tuition money) has to be spent doing the City's job. When I was a student at ODU, the ODUPD's main job was to write parking tickets.

UMMMM

Submitted by legion2002 on Fri, 01/06/2012 at 7:49 pm.

ODU students were the ones caught selling drugs in the classroom. ODU and you people that are blind need to stop blaming the residents of the community.

ODU has Parking services

Submitted by jaymacc on Fri, 01/06/2012 at 7:29 pm.

From 1992-2004? ODU Parking Services (Staffed by part-time, full-time, and student employees ) gave out parking tickets (for the most part) in all the control decal lots.

The City of Norfolk (Parking not Police) maintain the street meters and street hourly parking.

ODU police issue traffic tickets. If police are now issuing parking tickets, that's a gross waste of resources IMO.