The Bermuda College may have one of the smallest campuses in the world, but that was no impediment to its Director of Security and Safety, Russell (Dino) Richardson being elected to the Board of Directors of the Hartford, Connecticut-based International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA).

His fellow board members include such giants as the chief of McGill University in Montreal, Canada with a population of 41,000 including 35,000 students from 153 countries including Bermuda.

Mr. Richardson was elected as International Director at the association's AGM in Ottawa, in April of last year, and was invested later in June. Since then he has represented his region at the CAMPROSA 2009 conference in Cape Town South Africa, and met with several

Members of the US Senate and House of Representative during IACLEA's annual day meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.

And more recently, he has been intensely engaged in assisting Ghana in the formation of a National Association of Campus Law Enforcement Professionals. Currently he's in the process of developing such an association in the CARICOM region.

Mr. Richardson hails from St. David's where his grandfather was the late Rev. Hilton Carl Richardson, the legendary principal of the school that bore his name, and was the forerunner of the St David's Primary School.

Married to Jean and father of their three children, Mr. Richardson graduated from the Bermuda Hotel and Catering College in 1965.

After a few years in the hospitality industry as a chef, he joined the Bermuda Prison Service as a chef instructor.

He soon rose through the ranks to become a Principal Prison Officer with responsibilities for the day to day operations of the various prison entities. He also became President and Chief negotiator for the Prison Officers Association.

His service to the Prison Department merited him the Colonial Police Service Medal (CPSM) from the Queen in her honours list in 1988 and a cluster in 1995.

Upon retiring after 25 years in the prison service, Mr. Richardson joined the Bermuda Police Service, and was later invited to create a security department at the Bermuda College. in 1996. It was there he became aware of IACLEA and his decision to join in 1997 has paid big dividends for himself and the Bermuda College as an institution.

Instinctively, Mr. Richardson is concerned about the rise in violence in Bermuda. He expressed the belief that if the Government, people and entire private and public educational system do not prepare now, "the crazy gang violence and anti-social behaviour seen in the streets, it will enter onto our educational institutes".