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Abbreviation
  
UNH CP

Employees
  
16 officers, 5 certified dispatchers

Legal personality
  
Governmental: Government agency

Operations jurisdiction*
  
City of West Haven in the state of Connecticut, USA

General nature
  
Law enforcement Local civilian police

Headquarters
  
West Haven, Connecticut

The University of New Haven Police is the university police department of the University of New Haven, which has an 84-acre (340,000 m2) campus in West Haven, Connecticut. Its 16 officers are state certified and sworn law enforcement officers, protecting the campus area 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They protect approximately 6500 students, that live in on campus residence halls, and university owned apartments. The department has full police power on the university campus as a constabulary of the city of West Haven Police Department. Police authority is granted by state statute through the Mayor of the city of West Haven.

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Equipment

  • Two Ford Explorer police cruisers
  • Two Ford Crown Victoria police cruiser
  • One Ford Escape
  • Four mountain bike police bicycles

    • Programs

  • The Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) system is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques presented by three nationally certified instructors. It is a free and comprehensive 12-hour course covering awareness, prevention, risk reduction and risk avoidance and the basics of hands-on defense training.
  • The university's text alert system (e2campus) can be used to send emergency messages to all UNH e-mail boxes, including police notifications.

    • Court case

    In 2007, the Connecticut Supreme Court decided in Miron v. University of New Haven Police Department (SC 17596) that employers had the right to give critical job reviews.

    References

    University of New Haven Police Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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