Public Safety to cut parking, lockout patrols

“This includes spending for personnel and non-personnel costs,” Cliatt added.

Yet Public Safety remains committed to upholding its current standards of campus protection, even as it seeks ways to cut costs, University administrators said.

“In putting together its plan, DPS [the Department of Public Safety] was careful to ensure that the level of safety and security services to the campus community would not be diluted,” Assistant Vice President for Safety and Administrative Planning Charlotte Treby Williams said in an e-mail to the ‘Prince.’

Public Safety has not yet resorted to laying off any of its employees, Williams added. But she noted that “DPS has ... realized savings through attrition and vacancy management.”

Public Safety is already planning to minimize employee overtime costs, and services such as helping students who are locked out of their rooms or cars are likely to be the most heavily affected by the department’s new budget plan. Accordingly, Public Safety assistance requested by students with such problems “may take longer,” Williams said.

“DPS publications, like the annual Clery crime report, will no longer be printed, but will be distributed electronically,” she added.

The department will also reduce its spending by ceasing to participate in campus parking enforcement. Instead, these responsibilities will now be assigned to the Office of Transportation and Parking Services.

Yale Security and the Yale Police Department have also faced budget cuts because of the economic downturn. Overall staffing levels at these departments have not decreased, the Yale Daily News reported, but some administrative costs have been cut, and full-time officers are now fulfilling the duties previously carried out by casual, part-time employees.