Police Department

The University of California Police Department conducts itself according to the following core values:

• Accountability: Holding ourselves responsible for our behavior and performance.
• Respect: Safeguarding the rights, differences and dignity of all.
• Integrity: Consistently conducting ourselves according to high standards of behavior.
• Service: Ensuring the well being of our community by proactively meeting its needs.
• Excellence: Striving to achieve the highest levels of professional performance.

A relationship of trust and confidence between members of the University of California Police and the community we serve is essential to effective law enforcement. Law enforcement officers must be free to exercise their best judgment and to initiate law enforcement action in a reasonable, lawful and impartial manner, without fear of reprisal. Likewise, officers have a special obligation to respect the rights of all persons.

The University of California Police Department acknowledges its responsibility to establish a system of complaint and disciplinary procedures which not only subject the officer to corrective action when he/she conducts himself/herself improperly, but also will protect him/her from unwarranted criticism when he/she discharges his/her duties properly. It is the purpose of these procedures to provide a prompt, equitable, open and expeditious disposition of complaints regarding the conduct of members of the Department.

To this end, the University of California Police Department welcomes from members of the community constructive criticism of the Department and complaints against its members or procedures.

We also appreciate and welcome commendations and other comments from members of the public. To ensure excellent service is recognized and modeled, it is important for us to hear about our community's experiences.