Michael Heidingsfield, Director of Police, The University of Texas Systems Police

“We are the third largest state law enforcement agency in Texas, and with a complement of 567 sworn officers and 899 civilian support staff, we deliver police services across the state to a daily population that exceeds 330,000—As you might imagine, intimate partner violence and sexual assault are a significant concern for us—The Office of Director of Police has partnered for the past two years with the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and that collaboration produced “The Blueprint for Campus Police: Responding to Sexual Assault,” which has now become a fundamental element of our training both here in Austin at our police academy and regionally across the state—The work of ADA McKay in the area of Strangulation was yet another dimension of our future training that we wanted to better understand and ultimately adopt—Through her presentation last week, that process is now well under way! McKay was passionate in her presentation, clearly a subject matter expert and she brought with her a compelling case to understand this topic—We are grateful to her and her commitment to understand and prosecute these kinds of offenses and for providing us with someone as experienced and dedicated as ADA McKay to learn from.”