Harvard University Police Department

Infobox Government agency
agency_name = Harvard University Police

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jurisdiction = All property owned or used by Harvard University
employees = 80+ Sworn Officers
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chief1_name = Chief Francis Riley
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website = [http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/ Harvard University Police] The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a private police agency of Harvard University, is a full-service police department responsible for the safety and security of students, faculty, staff, and visitors at the university's Cambridge, Boston, and Watertown, Massachusetts sites. The HUPD’s chief of police, since 1996, is Francis D. "Bud" Riley [http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/playing_it_safe/2007-2008_Playingitsafe.pdf "Playing It Safe: A Guide for Keeping Safe at Harvard"] Harvard Univ. Police Dep’t, 2007–2008, (Cambridge: HUPD, 2007)] . The chief performs his duties under the direction of the university’s general counsel [ [http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/FACTBOOK_2007-08_FULL.pdf "Harvard University Fact Book 2007-2008"] Harvard Univ. Office of Budgets, Fin. Planning & Inst’l Research, (2007)] , Robert W. Iuliano [ [http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/07.17/07-iuliano.html "Iuliano Named Harvard’s Vice President and General Counsel" Harv. U. Gazette, July 17, 2003, online ed.] .

=Divisions=

* Patrol Division
* Criminal Investigation Division
* Dignitary Protection Unit [ [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=237789 "Harvard Police Dept. May Reorganize Soon"] Joshua A. Gerstein, Harv. Crimson, Oct. 2, 1990, online ed., para. 3]

Police logs controversy

The HUPD has been the target of requests for greater transparency in the records it keeps or publishes about its officers’ actions. [ [http://www.splc.org/report_detail.asp?id=1039&edition=27 "Police at three private schools block access to police records"] (Winter 2003-04, XXV, No. 1, P.17 ). Student Press Law Center. Retrieved 2007-08-29.] [ [http://www.splc.org/report_detail.asp?id=1260&edition=38 "Crime under wraps A look at why administrators at some prestigious schools are reluctant to give out incident reports"] (Winter 2005-06, XXVII, No. 1, P.33 ). Student Press Law Center. Retrieved 2007-08-29.] This culminated in "The Harvard Crimson v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al." in 2003 where the Harvard student daily newspaper, "The Crimson", filed suit against HUPD in the Massachusetts Superior Court. The case was ultimately transferred to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ["Harvard Crimson, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, et al.", No. SJC-09434, [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=ma&vol=sjcslip/15838&invol=1 Full text] (2006). Findlaw.com. Retrieved 2007-08-29.] and won by Harvard in January 2006. [ [http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=1159 "Harvard campus police reports not subject to open records law, court rules"] (2006-01-13). Student Press Law Center. Retrieved 2007-08-29.]

In January 2007 a bill, H. 3249, [ [http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht03pdf/ht03249.pdf "College Police Officers Records Inspection Bill, H. 3249"] 185th Gen. Ct., 1st Sess. (Mass. 2007)] was introduced in the Mass. legislature that would provide greater access to records at all private police departments throughout the state, including campus and hospital police. [ [http://www.mass.gov/legis/185history/h03249.htm "College Police Officers Records Inspection Bill, H. 3249"] , 185th Gen. Ct., 1st Sess. (Mass. 2007), in Commw. of Mass. Gen. Ct., Bill Histories] [ [http://www.dailyfreepress.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=4cd103c6-dfbf-48fc-bf9c-a8e661be6c8e "Private Colleges Would Open Police Records with State Bill"] Stephanie Perry, Daily Free Press (Boston U.), Apr. 18, 2008, online ed.]

ee also

*Campus police
*Harvard

External links

* [http://www.hupd.harvard.edu Harvard University Police Department]
* [http://stalcommpol.org/scanner.html Harvard University Police Department scanner in streaming MP3]

References