The University Police Department, located in the Briscoe Administration Building, room 100, maintains the safety and security of the entire campus and university community around the clock, seven days a week. The department employs 5 officers which include the chief of police and 4 patrol officers. The U.P.D. maintains a good working relationship with the area’s local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and emergency medical services. Officers with the department are commissioned peace officers and, as such, are vested with all powers, privileges and immunities of peace officers within the county, including all streets and roads, in which the university owns, rents, leases or otherwise controls property. These powers are in accordance with V.T.C.A. Education Code, Section 51.203 as amended by H.B. 391, effective Sept. 1, 1987. Officers conduct traditional police services, as well as security, traffic and parking supervision, weapons control, criminal investigations and crime prevention.
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