Each regional campus maintains a fully staffed police headquarters, and
non-emergency contact information varies by location. While the police
chiefs in Newark and Camden report to their respective chancellor's office,
all follow policies, procedures, administrative practices, and emergency
operational plans established for the entire university.
For campus specific public safety information, go to:
On July 30, 2011, the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) awarded the Rutgers University Police Department full advanced law enforcement accreditation. Achieving accreditation represents the completion of a three year department-wide period of self evaluation which concluded with a thorough review by a team of independent assessors. In receiving the status, CALEA has confirmed that the department met or exceeded 479 standards established by CALEA and accepted by the international law enforcement community as best practices.
The Rutgers University Police Department is now one of only twelve law enforcement agencies within the State of New Jersey that are CALEA accredited. There are over 18,000 police departments in the United States alone and CALEA has awarded advanced law enforcement accreditation to just over six hundred departments world-wide, including only 57 college or university Police Departments.
Additional information about law enforcement accreditation can be found at
http://www.calea.org/.
Rutgers works with neighboring police departments, local governments, the State of New Jersey, and the National Guard in mutual aid partnerships and regularly conducts exercises designed to better prepare the university for any kind of emergency or disaster. Based on lessons learned from these drills and from experiences at other universities nationwide, Rutgers continuously reviews and updates its emergency operational plans.
The university's emergency notification system uses many different and overlapping mechanisms to provide time-critical information to the Rutgers community, as no single mechanism is sufficient to provide blanket notification. Methods include email, website announcements, TV, radio, and text messaging to cell phones, as well as low-tech mass communications such as electronic signs, bullhorns, and police car speaker systems. As with all emergency planning, our notification systems are regularly tested and upgraded.
