Responsibility: The Department of Police and Public Safety (DPPS) is responsible for the acquisition, installation, maintenance, and monitoring of electronic protection systems* used in or on Michigan State University buildings, structures, and campus property in East Lansing. DPPS will respond to all annunciations from such electronic protection systems.

Authorization: To ensure that Michigan State University units are properly equipped with electronic protection that is compatible with centralized management and monitoring by DPPS and that is of consistent quality across campus:

No unit may procure an electronic protection system from an outside source. All requests for acquisition, installation, maintenance, improvement, and monitoring of electronic protection systems in buildings, structures, or elsewhere on campus in East Lansing must be directed to the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety.

DPPS will act as a consultant to units interested in acquiring electronic protection systems and will work with MSU Physical Plant and the requesting units to acquire, install, maintain, improve, and monitor such systems. DPPS will also work with units that currently use an outside vendor’s system to transition that electronic protection system to DPPS.