Community Safety

Bomb Threat 777-7533

If you observe a suspicious object  . . .

• Do not handle the object

• Immediately clear the area and/or the building.

• When a community safety officer arrives, follow the CSO’s instructions.

If you receive a bomb threat by phone  . . .

Note the telephone number on the caller I.D.

Call community safety (extension 7533) immediately after you are disconnected, but first attempt to obtain as much information as possible and take notes if you can. 

• Ask the caller:

1. When is the bomb going to explode?

2. Where is it right now?

3. What does it look like?

4. What kind of bomb is it?

5. What will cause it to explode?

6. Did you place the bomb?

7. Why?

8. Who are you?

9. Where are you?

• Remember as much as you can about the voice. 

Would you call it . . .

male? female?

calm? angry? excited?

slow? rapid?

soft? loud?

laughing? crying?

youthful? elderly?

accented? slurred? nasal?

stuttering? lisped?

raspy? deep? breathy? cracking? 

disguised? familiar to you?

• Try to note if there are background sounds 

such as 

street noises

machinery or vehicles

animal noises

a PA system

music

static or hollowness associated with cell or speaker phones

• Try to note the exact words of the threat and 

the tone of the message. Is it  . . .

well-spoken?

foul or vulgar?

taped?

in street talk?

read from a script?