With the recent burglarized and vandalized buildings here on campus, it has raised the question on how thieves and vandals were able to pull such an elaborateevent when our campus is patrolled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week by Cerritos College Campus Police.

Even though the campus police are trained to handle the most violent of crimes, how can we expect for campus police to protect the entire school with such a small police force and no reliable video camera and alarm system to help alert them of such incidents taking place?

Now Cerritos College students and faculty are left dealing with two separate accounts of vandalism as well one account of burglary with multiple Macintosh computers now missing over the last weekend.

How were the culprit(s) behind the vandalism able to break through windows and doors from two buildings without actually being caught in the action?

Even worst, how were the burglar(s) able to get through a building and a classroom to take home with them eight Macintosh computers without being noticed by anyone on campus. For someone to take eight or more computers from a building must take a little over half an hour to maybe an hour.

Although, campus police gathers information constantly everyday all day, we can’t expect them to be at all places at the same time, which is why it is believed that the vandalism incident took between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday. It is uncertain if campus police was patrolling the campus in between those three hours, but if thats the case, campus police should have been able to detect suspicious activity at the time.

Although campus police has to go through a rigorous training to look and point out any suspicious activity and suspicious individuals, how can they be responsible for not apprehending those responsible at a moments notice if the campus doesn’t have a reliable alarm system.

Cerritos College should focus in installing alarm that can detect when there is a break-in. If our campus does in fact have these alarms, why didn’t the alarms trigger when the vandals broke in.

Let us not have any events like this occur once again on campus.

Campus police should be able to attend to such events in moments notice or at least identify it within an hour so those culprits could be held accountable for their actions, but without a reliable alarm system and video cameras, this type of incident may happen again.