Record setting-month for SCCC campus security department
April 4, 2008

Cayla Thomlinson
Editor

In two years the Seward County Community College’s security department has never gone more than two weeks without filing a security report. March 2008 is the first month since Security Supervisor Ray Petty started working at the college in 2006 that there has not been a single report filed.
“The stars and the moon must be perfectly aligned or something because we have not filed a single incident report since Feb. 19,” commented Petty. “It’s really kind of weird.”
Petty attended SCCC, then attended Washburn University in Topeka to complete his degree.
Before starting as the security supervisor at the college, he worked for the Liberal police department for 10 years, the sheriff’s department for four years and was a supervisor of TSA screening for Homeland Security for two years. Petty has been married to Millie Petty for 14 years and they have an 11-year-old son, Zachary.
Petty credits the lack of incidents in the previous month to the respect between the students, faculty and staff at SCCC.
“We have tried to establish a rapport with the students,” Petty said. “That we are here for their safety, not as an enforcement agency.”
There are three security officers empolyeed by the college working under Petty. John Hiebert has been with the college for 20 years working in maintenance or security. Hiebert currently works the evening shifts at the college.
Christina Mauldin has been working at the college for a little over a year and a half. Mauldin graduated from Liberal High School and also attended SCCC to receive a degree in criminal justice.
Later she worked for a nearby juvenile center. She works the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift, noting that she has always been a night person.
“I figured if I was up,” Mauldin said, laughing, “why not get paid for it?”
The other nightshift officer is Bill Love. Love started last summer, after returning to Liberal when his wife Laurie was transferred here. Love lives with his wife of 11 years and their children and is currently attending SCCC to complete his associates degree.
“They’re a pretty good bunch of kids out here,” commented Love on the lack of crime at SCCC.