Saint Louis University's Department of Public Safety offers multiple crime prevention and emergency preparedness courses to the SLU community. These courses are all taught by officers who have attended specialized training to become certified instructors in the subject matter.
Our department’s goal with each course is to raise awareness, provide information and help develop skills on how to keep themselves and those around them safe.
Interested in registering for a course? Contact us.
Our Courses
Campus Safety Presentation
DPS provides a safety presentation to help SLU community members better understand our department, the services we offer and basic safety tips to help you navigate our campus.
Upon request, DPS will hold training sessions that consist of a PowerPoint presentation and a Q&A session. These training sessions are offered to departments, organizations, clubs and any other groups within the SLU community. The instructors of this course will go over our basic safety tips and provide information that applies to the group they are teaching.
Fire Extinguisher Training
Upon request, Public Safety will set up a training class where the St. Louis Fire Department teaches and demonstrates for the class on how to properly operate a fire extinguisher. The fire department will the allow each participant to operate the fire extinguisher.
Defense and Personal Safety (D.P.S. with DPS)
D.P.S. is a basic self-defense course that was created and is taught by DPS officers. The program was designed as a basic self-defense course and requires no previous experience in self-defense training. This three-hour long course will teach participants different techniques of blocking, striking, and various other hand-to-hand combat tactics.
Training will be held in the Simon Recreation Center.
Dates
- 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1
- 6 to 7 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8
- 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6
Instructors
Lt. Johsiey Litherland
johsiey.litherland@slu.edu
Officer Air'Shay Lampkin
airshay.lampkin@slu.edu
Lt. Joshua Johnson
joshua.m.johnson@slu.edu
Officer Lavonda Tucker-Jackson
lavonda.tuckerjackson@slu.edu
CPR-AED Training
Be prepared by learning how to save lives and handle emergencies by attending the CPR/AED/first-aid course. This program was created by the American Heart Association and is taught on the SLU campus by certified and experienced DPS instructors. This hands-on class is four hours long, and upon completion of the class, each participant receives a CPR certification card.
This class costs $10 and is limited to six class participants at a time to allow for the best possible hands-on experience.
Dates
CPR/AED training will take place on the following dates.
- 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9
- 8 a.m. to noon Thursday, Sept. 19
- 8 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Oct. 2
- 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7
- 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4
- 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Nov. 5
- 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16
- 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday Dec. 17
Instructors
- Lt. Joshua Johnson
joshua.m.johnson@slu.edu
Active Violence Response Training
This course, was created to prepare people on how to respond in an active violence situation. The training is taught by instructors who focus on empowering people to make good survival decisions should an attack occur.
Instructors
- Lt. Joshua Johnson
joshua.m.johnson@slu.edu