Opinions plz before i phone uni....security guard at uni walking into DD room !

buglawton

Oooh-err!

Thug jailed ten times lands job as security guard - The Sunday Mail

shows what is possible

the_cat

Oh FGS, was that REALLY a helpful link?!!! The OP doesn't need scare mongerers.

OP - it is clear that both you and your daughter are going through a quite natural transition period in which you both need to adjust to the new regime. You (and from your posts, I think you know this) need to learn to let her take the lead in sorting out these sort of things, and she needs to learn to take it. I would very strongly urge you to resist the temptation to go beyond offering her advice and becoming involved yourself. In the longer term she will benefit much more by it.

You have addressed the immediate problem by getting advice to use the key in the lock, doorstop or alarm which will ensure that she feels safe. So it can't happen again anyway. Problem solved.

I would advise that she has a quiet off the record sort of chat with the student rep, her tutor or someone else in authority if she is still worried in a week or two as a lot of the upset she is feeling is probably down to moving to a strange place and learning to settle in. Only as an absolute last resort would I get involved directly with the uni.... not for fear of causing trouble, simply for fear of making my DD look silly and holding her back from becoming a more confident adult

Good luck

Rosie75

The best person to speak to if she doesn't want to complain directly to security is the resident warden / tutor for her block.

silvercar

I would rather that a uni employee has the ability to unlock the door and walk in on my child than risk them being ill/ on fire/ drugged out in their room with the door so secure that no-one can swiftly gain access.

Katie-Kat-Kins

silvercar wrote: »

I would rather that a uni employee has the ability to unlock the door and walk in on my child than risk them being ill/ on fire/ drugged out in their room with the door so secure that no-one can swiftly gain access.

And what would happen if they had a private bedsit?????

Seriously, if anyone had major concerns they would call an ambulance and break the door down.

I really don't see the problem with the uni having a dead bolt on the doors. We all had yale locks and could put the button down to dead bolt them. I'm sure my ex had the same. Certainly no one ever let themselves in while I was staying there, and I stayed mid week as well as weekends.

buglawton

Actually stand by my above post. We now live in a hyper-politically correct UK where women cannot share childminding due to rules & regs that are, at root, about SAFETY - but a security guard can walk into anyone's room as he has a key. OP should question in writing what the Uni's policy/code of conduct is on this. Most Uni halls have a nearby manned reception area where for instance parcels are kept for students - could be ditto for the LAN cable and similar.

silvercar

Seriously, if anyone had major concerns they would call an ambulance and break the door down.

Not in uni halls, they would just assume they were dossing down elsewhere rather than break a door down, whereas if they had the option of saying to security that they feel a room needs to be checked on its more likely to happen.

RoxieW

Just to let you know - I passed out in my room (NOT through drink lol). Luckily a friend was due to call for me and they got the security guard to let them in so wedging a door shut is not the best idea.
I think you are overreacting - students could be in bed at anytime of day and when asked to collect something many wont bother.

esmerelda98

Firstly, OP, I note your username is 'worriedsik', which makes me wonder whether you have an anxious nature in general. You do sound like you have not experienced the joys of living in halls, otherwise you would not be so scandalised by this incident. But more pertinently, if your daughter was asleep, she cannot say for certain that the security guard did not enter quickly after knocking a second time. Think about moving your daughter to private accommodation if you want that level of privacy, but I know that I felt very safe in halls, and can't say I would have felt the same in private accomodation in my first year.

Katie-Kat-Kins

silvercar wrote: »

Not in uni halls, they would just assume they were dossing down elsewhere rather than break a door down, whereas if they had the option of saying to security that they feel a room needs to be checked on its more likely to happen.

Not if the door is dead bolted from the inside!!! They'd know you were in there then.

As I say I had a Yale type lock, it could be locked and unlocked with a key from the outside, so if I went out and left the room unlocked anyone else with a key could gain access. However if I was inside and didn't want anyone to come in then there was a button I could press down which would lock the door so that it couldn't be opened from outside. I never really bothered with this facility as no one ever tried to get into my room but I can see that if there are often cleaners and security guards around you might want to be able to bolt the door from the inside when you want privacy.

Deadbolts on the inside are common on hotel rooms so that you can stop the maid coming in while you are in the shower or whatever, I really don't understand why this type of system couldn't be used in halls.