Rutgers University Police Department - RUPD

The official page of the Rutgers Police Department, a NJ state organization tasked with law enforcement and public safety services for Rutgers, The State University of NJ. The Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) is a public/state government organization tasked with providing law enforcement, emergency response, and public safety services to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The RUPD operates with three distinct geographic commands aligned with Rutgers primary campus locations in Newark, New Brunswick, and Camden, New Jersey. The RUPD is a full-service police agency with statewide authority established under N.J.S.A. 18A:6-4.2 to 4.11 inclusive. The RUPD is staffed with 180 sworn police officers, whom are duly licensed by the New Jersey Police Training Commission, and have completed basic and in-service police academy training along with their municipal, county, and state counterparts. Rutgers Police Officers are authorized to carry fi****ms, effect arrests, and enforce criminal and traffic laws at all times within the State of New Jersey. Rutgers Police Officers are assigned to uniformed patrol functions, the most visible resource of the police department, as well as to support roles within investigations, special operations, emergency management, traffic safety, crime prevention, community policing, professional standards, executive protection, training, and administration. The RUPD additionally provides security services as a proud partner with Rutgers Athletics to New Jersey's second largest public venue, SHI Stadium -- in addition to Jersey Mike's Arena -- for all NCAA Division I and Big Ten Conference athletic events. In addition to police services, the RUPD employs full- and part-time civilian personnel and student workers within an array of essential support specialties including 9-1-1 communications, emergency management, security services, parking enforcement, administrative and technical services, records, background investigations, compliance, security technology, and identity access management. The Rutgers Police Department is an internationally accredited law-enforcement agency, achieving initial and recurrent accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) commencing in 2011. The RUPD is also accredited as an agency through the New Jersey State Association of Chief of Police (NJSACOP) and the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA.) The RUPD's Shared Services Emergency Communications Center, which provides 9-1-1 public safety answer/dispatch point services to both Rutgers and contracted partners, secured additional independent accreditation through CALEA in 2020. Central Command (New Brunswick): Chief Kenneth B. Cop, Vice-President Public Safety
South Command (Camden): A/Chief Matthew A. Gulsby

Annual Report:

The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is available for public review at the following URL. This comprehensive report provides an overview of our public safety services and includes statistical crime- and fire-related information as required under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act 20 U.S.C. §1092(f), or the Clery Act as it is commonly known. https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/crime-statistics/

Statement of Use / Comment Policy:

The RUPD encourages you to engage with our organization which includes the sharing of information, ideas, expression, and opinions on this page, however we reserve the right to remove posts containing profanity/obscenity, personal attacks/threats, commercial promotions, political campaign materials, irrelevant information, bias/hate speech, or posts otherwise deemed to be inappropriate and not under the purview of protected free speech. Comments violating the criminal laws of the State of New Jersey may be investigated and prosecuted to the limit of the law. The comments posted by followers of this page reflect the opinions of the individual poster and do not necessarily reflect the views of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey or the Rutgers University Police Department.