Ensuring your immediate safety
If your immediate safety is at risk – call 111 and ask for the police.
Then:
- If you are in a residential college, tell a staff member or call the office
- If you are in a flat, get a flatmate you trust to be with you, then decide what to do next
Contact Campus Watch
If you are on campus and you are feeling unsafe, call Campus Watch.
- 24 hour contact to Campus Watch Tel +64 3 479 5000/5001
- Toll-free to Campus Watch Free phone 0800 479 5000 (within New Zealand)
- Text Campus Watch +64 21 279 5000
Contact Te Whare Pounamu (Women’s refuge) they can offer a place of safety
Feeling safe around campus in the short – medium term
Te Whare Tāwharau staff can meet with you to discuss how you can keep yourself safe while you consider what other steps you can take, or what other support you can access.
If you make a complaint to the police, and the respondent (the person alleged to have committed the sexual harm) is arrested, the police or the Court may impose bail conditions on the respondent preventing them from:
- Contacting you by any means (including social media)
- Being on campus (if they are not a University of Otago Student)
- Going to your place of residence
If the respondent (the person alleged to have committed the sexual harm) is a University of Otago Student and you can identify them, the Proctor can impose no-fault protective measures on both of you so that neither of you can:
- Contact the other party or ask any associates to contact the other party
- Go to the other person’s place of residence
No-fault protective measures are available whether or not you make a complaint to the University (via the Proctor’s office).
A breach of no-fault protective measures is a breach of the Student Conduct Statute and can result in disciplinary action being taken.
No-fault protective measures expire at the end of each calendar year, they but can be renewed each year if required.
Get more information on no-fault protective measures
Feeling safe in your residential college
Your college warden is also able to impose no-fault protective measures within residential colleges.
Find out more about how your residential college warden can help you feel safe in your college