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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 and Boston campuses.  The HUPD’s chief of police, since 1996, is Francis D. “Bud” Riley.''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, Robert W. Iuliano.


Divisions

* Patrol Division * Criminal Investigation Division * Dignitary Protection Unit


Law Enforcement Authority

All sworn members of the Harvard University Police Department are sworn as special state police officers under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 22C Section 63. This gives them full powers of arrest in and upon all property owned or controlled by Harvard University. Additionally, all officers hold commissions as deputy sheriffs for Middlesex County and Suffolk County, which gives them powers of arrest throughout Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston, where Harvard has facilities.


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. This culminated in ''The Harvard Crimson v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al.'' in 2003 where the Harvard student daily newspaper filed suit against HUPD in Massachusetts Superior Court.  The case was ultimately transferred to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and won by the University in January 2006.''Harvard campus police reports not subject to open records law, court rules''
(2006-01-13). Student Press Law Center. Retrieved 2007-08-29.


See also

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Campus police Campus police or university police in the United States and Canada are sworn police or peace officers employed by a college or university to protect that private property of the campus and surrounding areas and the people who live, work, and ...
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Cambridge Police Department (Massachusetts) The Cambridge Police Department is the municipal police department for the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Formally organized in 1859. with the appointment of John C. Willey as the first Chief of Police, the Cambridge Po ...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department (MIT Police, formerly MIT Campus Patrol) is the police agency charged with providing law enforcement to the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The 168-acre (68.0 ha) ...


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