Campus police

Patrol cars of the Ohio University Police Department in Athens, Ohio.

Campus police or university police in the United States and Canada are often sworn police officers employed by a college or university to protect the campus and surrounding areas and the people who live, work, and visit it.

Many university police forces employ a combination of police officers, security guards and student workers.

United Kingdom

In the UK, universities do not have a specific police force that responds to crime on university campuses, with the exception of Cambridge University Constabulary[1] and, until 2003, Oxford University Police.[2][3] Instead most universities have a police liaison officer seconded from the area's police service. The liaison officer can provide crime prevention and recruitment information, patrol of campus site and create links with community as part of the national Community Policing Strategy. It is also known for officers to take lectures in policing for students studying law, police studies etc. This allows students to gain first hand knowledge on policing and real life scenarios that the force faces.

Most universities will have a security team responsible for patrolling the campuses.

United States

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Rather than traditional police colors, cruisers at some institutions sport the livery colors of the university they serve.

Most university police officers are commissioned through their state Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) after completing established training and pre-licensure preparation. This is usually equivalent to that of a municipal or state peace officer. They routinely attend the same police academy as local or state police officers.

Many departments operate some of the same units as municipal agencies such as detective units, special response teams (SWAT or SRT), canine units, bicycle patrol units, motorcycle patrol units, and community policing units. In some cases, campus police agencies are better equipped and staffed than municipal and county agencies in their area due to the significant amount of funding available in a college environment.

The campus police in many state owned schools have state-wide authority and jurisdiction similar to that afforded to state police.

Hawaii, Idaho, and New Hampshire are the only states in the US to not have a statutory provision for the commissioning of sworn campus police officers. They were joined by Oregon until 2009, when that state revised its system of Campus law enforcement in Oregon.

in the 2004-05 school year, 74% of college campuses had sworn officers with the power to arrest, and 90% of these departments were armed[4]

92% of campus police departments are responsible for handling their own dispatching, which means that they are completely self-sufficient agencies. They do not rely on the city police around them to take on their responsibilities.[5]

California

California State University Police Department

University of California Police Department

Colorado

Officers of the Colorado State University Police Department and the University of Colorado (Boulder) Police Department are commissioned officers of the state of Colorado, but also hold commissions through the cities where their universities are based (respectively Fort Collins and Larimer County for CSU and the City of Boulder for CU).[6]

Louisiana

Campus police officers for public universities in Louisiana have full police powers on and near their campuses as well as while investigating campus crimes away from the campus grounds.

Minnesota

The University of Minnesota employs its own campus police, the University of Minnesota Police Department (UMPD). UMPD enforces law on all University property, and works closely with the Minneapolis Police Department to enforce the law in neighborhoods within close proximity to the University, such as Dinkytown. Additionally, UMPD employs a part-time student security force known as the Security Monitor Program, which provides security escorts around the campus area, patrols campus property, and works with UMPD to enforce University, Minneapolis, and Minnesota law around the campus area.

North Carolina

Campus police can be under two options: Private colleges have police agency status under GS 74E (Company police act) while state university system officers and community colleges have state law enforcement powers, such as mutual assistance, extraterritorial jurisdiction of one mile, the same as municipal police and can also enter into mutual assistance agreements. All police officers must be NC Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) certified and pass all state standards for peace officers.

Ohio

State law in Ohio authorizes the board of trustees of a university to appoint police officers to serve their institutions and jurisdictions. All police officers in Ohio, including university police officers, are trained and certified to the same standards, as overseen by the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission.[7] As such, university police officers have the same authority to carry weapons and make arrests.[8]

Oregon

Campus law enforcement in Oregon

Rhode Island

University police at public institutions in the State of Rhode Island are sworn police officers.

Texas

University police at public institutions in the State of Texas are sworn police officers, and are vested with the same authority as other police officers in Texas.[16]

Virginia

In Virginia, state law authorizes university police officers to be armed and vests them with the same authority as other types of police officers in the State.[25][26][27]

Florida

New College of Florida Police Department

New York

New York State University Police

City University of New York Public Safety Department

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Constabulary: Proctors: University of Cambridge". University of Cambridge website. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  2. ↑ Straw rejoices as Oxford's Bulldogs are put down, The Daily Telegraph, 15 October 2002
  3. ↑ Oration by the Senior Proctor, Oxford University Gazette, 27 March 2003
  4. ↑ Wilson, Charles (2011). "Perceived Roles of Campus Law Enforcement: A Cognitive Review of Attitudes and Beliefs of Campus Constituents". Professional issues in criminal justice 6 (1): 29–37.
  5. ↑ Bromley, Max (1998). "Comparing campus and city police operational tactics". Journal of Security Administration 21 (1): 41–54.
  6. ↑ http://police.colostate.edu/jurisdiction/
  7. ↑ "Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission". Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  8. ↑ "Ohio Revised Code". Authority to Arrest Without Warrant. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  9. ↑ "Organizational Chart". Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  10. ↑ "OSU DPS History Book". Ohio State University. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  11. ↑ "Ohio State University Department of Public Safety". Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  12. ↑ "The Ohio State University Department of Public Safety". Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  13. ↑ "Ohio University Police Department". Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "The Post". New Faces, More Badges. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  15. ↑ "Outlook". Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  16. ↑ "Texas Penal Code". Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  17. ↑ "University of Texas Police Department". Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  18. ↑ "University of Texas Police Department". Criminal Investigations. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  19. ↑ "University of Texas Police Department". Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  20. ↑ "Texas A&M University Police". Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  21. ↑ "University of Houston Police". Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  22. ↑ "University of North Texas Police Department". Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  23. ↑ "University of North Texas Police Department". UNT Police K9 Unit. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  24. ↑ "University of North Texas Police Department". UNT Police Accreditations. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  25. ↑ "Code of Virginia". Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  26. ↑ "Code of Virginia". Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  27. ↑ "Code of Virginia". Retrieved 2014-03-14.

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