Safety

UCF's John C. Hitt library was evacuated Wednesday evening after a pipe busted on the third floor, leading to flooding, according to UCFPD.

It wasn’t until attending a candlelight vigil, when the names of her classmates were read, that UCF sophomore Alondra Cruz finally cried.

UCFPD has spent over $400,000 since 2018 on new equipment for transparency and safety, according to UCFPD. 

A UCF student crashed his truck into a sign board at the University Commons shopping center early Sunday afternoon.

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.