Student Experience

Student wins 2022 American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) Essay Competition
Congratulations to Bachelor of Public Safety (Honours) student Aidan Scharf, who won the 2022 American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) Essay completion for the Ottawa Chapter, for his essay, Onward and Upward: The Future of Business Continuity Planning. The $2,000 prize was awarded to Aidan at the Chateau Laurier in November.

This is the second year in a row that an Algonquin College, Police and Public Safety Institute student has won the competition.

ASIS Ottawa is a local chapter that works at creating professional development, security-related educational, training and networking opportunities for members, friends and colleagues. They work in collaboration with other regional chapters to promote security at the national level and globally.

 

Hear first hand about Angelina’s experience as a student in the Bachelor of Public Safety (Honours) program.

The Ottawa Homicide Project

Bachelor of Public Safety (Honours) students, the Victimology students and the Victimology Research Centre worked collaboratively to give help back to the community by creating the Ottawa Homicide Project. Their goal was to uncover links attached to the geographical locations where homicides occur and their proximity to various community agencies. They’ll be reporting the research to the Byward Market BIA and Lowertown Community Association, to provide those communities with a tool to use at their discretion in the spirit of prevention. Watch the video to see more!

March 20, 2021: New Software Prepares the Next Generation of Emergency Managers

The new industry-standard Disaster LAN software, donated to Algonquin College by BCG, will enable Bachelor of Public Safety (Honours) to create full emergency scenarios to help prepare students for real-world events. See the full press release here.

“Recent emergency events have demonstrated that having robust technologies to support emergency managers is important, but not enough. It is critical for first response organizations to be able to rapidly deploy and effectively leverage these tools! You cannot learn to manage the technology or software during the event. Our objective is to develop emergency managers and operators with the knowledge and expertise to use these systems from the outset.”

– Major (Retired) Graham Newbold, PhD, Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Public Safety (Honours)