Safety

UCF Police and Student Legal Services present "The True Cost of DUIs."

The UCF Police Department received a brand new emergency response and rescue vehicle Friday to support the department's Heavy Response Team in responding to critical incidents.

Tightly closing her eyes, adjunct instructor Kim Hardiman was almost unrecognizable after her face was coated in a vibrant green mask of colored powder.

UCF Police Department added ‘Blue’ to UCF Downtown's safety team, the department announced in a press release on Wednesday morning. Blue is a 2-year-old yellow lab who specializes in detecting explosives, conducting sweeps of buildings and assisting partner agencies with detection searches. 

Tall, fluorescent yellow poles topped with blue flashing lights and labeled with the word “emergency” are placed strategically in 245 locations throughout UCF's main campus.

UCF Cares, a section under the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, hosted its second Title IX training workshop of the semester Wednesday in Ferrell Commons.

The wife of a UCF faculty member, whose death was ruled “suspicious” in January by the Winter Park Police Department, was charged with murder on Wednesday, Orange County jail records show.  

The UCF Police Department is now doubling down on its pedestrian safety project by placing officers at busy crosswalks around campus, according to a tweet sent out by the department on Friday. 

A UCF student was arrested Tuesday after campus police discovered he was keeping a fully-automatic AR-15 in his vehicle at an on-campus dorm, police said.

The night-time campus shuttle system, previously known as Safety Escort Patrol Services, is being revamped this semester thanks to the Student Government Association and the UCF Police Department.

While finding new ways to improve UCF Police Department operations, UCF's new police chief said he wanted to make the use of body cameras more efficient.

The UCF Police Department will introduce a revamped safe escort service called Knight Ride later this fall.

The UCF Police Department went through training on Wednesday that focused on reducing implicit bias among officers.