University of Arizona Police Department
Goal: Continue and improve training, engagement, and proactive coordination with partners across law enforcement agencies in order to enact effective threat management and investigations. Learn more about UAPD.
Recommended Actions
In Progress
Process Owner: Senior Leadership
Description: Establish a Public Safety unit/leader with responsibility for Crisis Management, Response, and Training, including the planning, management, coordination, and implementation of any building/department-specific crisis and emergency plans across all University campuses.
Process Owner: Building Managers + UAPD + Facilities Management
Description: Require each building and department on all of the University’s campuses to work with UAPD, Emergency Operations, and Facilities Management on building and department-specific lockdown / crisis response implementation, accounting for any special accessibility needs (e.g., disabilities or international visitors). The University should establish a tiered approach to this recommendation and begin with the spaces that are higher risk for disruptive behavior (i.e. Financial Aid, Dean of Students, Human Resources, CAPS, etc.).
Process Owner: UAPD
Description: Audit the Special Investigations Unit ("SIU") workload, cases, personnel, and investigative work processes to assess capacity to manage the current SIU caseload and coordinate with TAMT, Dean Of Students, TPD, FBI JTTF, and community mental health resources. Increase supervision and oversight of the SIU to ensure timely, empathetic, effective responses and complete investigations and prioritize support of threat-related investigation.
Process Owner: UAPD + Marketing & Communications
Description: Central Marketing and Communications team should work with UAPD Community Engagement Officers to establish a tiered program to reimplement campus engagement with police officers for the purposes of establishing rapport with the community.
Process Owner: UAPD
Description: UAPD should demonstrate progress on its website in the implementation of Margolis Healy report recommendations.
Implemented
Process Owner: UAPD
Description: UAPD should continue active threat training and find ways to adapt and encourage even those members of the community who may be more hesitant to participate.
Status
The UAPD Community Engagement Unit offers comprehensive active threat training, which can be accessed by reaching out to uapd-communityengagement@list.arizona.edu. For additional details, please visit https://uapd.arizona.edu/community-engagement/safety-presentations.
Process Owner: UAPD
Description: UAPD should continue implementing recommendations from prior evaluations and continue developing partnerships with local law enforcement agencies to build better cooperation and communication to protect the campus and the community surrounding the University. Examples: host regional law enforcement officers for a monthly meeting; establish data, intel and coordination meetings; and better leverage officers assigned to FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and other task forces.
Status
UAPD has successfully implemented recommendations from prior evaluations and is actively fostering partnerships various law enforcement agencies.