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nflS Security, help and
service to the community
by J02 Kerry Honore
Staff Reporter
What NAS department has Ship's Servicemen,
Radiomen, Boatswain's Nates, and many other Navy
ratings? Security.
The Security Department is headed by Chief
Warrant Officer Edward Reed. It consists of six
principle divisions. The largest and best known of
these is Security Patrol, under the control of
Master-at-Arms Senior Chief L.C. Bautista.
Non Master-at-Arms personnel who work here
have to be retrained and learn a new skill in the
security field.
During training they'll learn how to operate radar
equipment, perform cardiopulmonary resus-
citation (CPR), fill out accident reports, go through
suicide prevention courses and other duties.
One thing they learn is how to handle people.
"However, there's one thing people can't be
taught," said Boatswain's Mate Second Class Mike
Sutherland, "and that's common sense. We can only
give them the basic knowledge of what can happen in
the field. We can't tell them what to do in every
case.“
The department has four sections working
12-hour swing shifts. Each section has three to five
patrolmen. One remains at the "desk" as
dispatcher. The others are on the road patrolling.
On the last day of their three-day break the
on-coming shift goes through training.
Besides looking out for traffic violations the
patrolmen have other functions like security
checks on buildings, breaking-up fights, and, a
lesser known job, serving as color guards during
ceremonies.
The next largest division is administration.
Anyone who has ever registered a car or needed a
new ID card has come in contact with this office.
They also process all the incident-complaint
records for personnel involved in criminal and
regulation violation cases. They handle custom
inspections for outbound household goods, and can
help you with any custom's form or question about
custom's shipment regulations.
A smaller group is the Security Investigators.
They handle crimes committed on board the base
that don't fall under the Naval Investigative Service
(NIS). The duty investigator responds to all vehicle
accidents in which injury is involved. They also
supervise police operations and aid the Officer of
the Day (OOD).
NAS Security also has a Military Working Dog
division (MWD) headed by Master-at-Arms Senior
Chief Oscar Polk and two dog handlers: MAZ Carol
Johnson and MA2 Marc Owins. The dogs are Jason
and Buter. The MWD division checks in-coming and
out-going military flight baggage and mail. The
MWD team belongs to NAS but is available to all
tenant commands on request, 24-hours a day.
The Physical Security (PS) division is headed by
Mr. Robert McCullough, who is a civilian physical
security specialist. The PS division monitors and
develops protection programs for all assets on the
NATO Base.
The division also provides assistance to other
departments/activities and tenant commands on
better ways to protect their resources.
firmed Forces centralize data on child, spouse abuse
American Forces Press Service
The Army,
Navy, Marine
Corps, Air
Force and
Coast Guard
will soon be
playing off
the same
sheet of
music in
collecting
information regarding child and spouse abuse.
A new form designed to capture that information
has been developed by family advocacy experts
from all services so that the Military Family
Resource Center can compile more complete and
accurate statistics. Family advocacy represen-
tatives are using it for every case of reported child
or spouse abuse.
A central information registry will still be
maintained by each service, and only service-wide
statistics will be forwarded to the Military Family
Resource Center.
JanaLee Sponberg, center program analyst,
said, "This is the first time we'll be able to
compare case data across all the services. We
should be able to come up with some very
meaningful information - especially for spouse
abuse data - on which we haven't had as much
systematic information before because it doesn't
have the same high 'disgust factor' as child abuse."
The form covers the full range of kinds of abuse,
including neglect and emotional maltreatment of
children, behavior on the part of the caretaker that
causes low selfesteem, undue fear or anxiety or
other damage to the child's emotional well-being.
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