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University Messages

2024
- Feedback Requested From the Community Regarding CALEA Standards
  
  August 12, 2024
  
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- Feedback Requested From the Community Regarding CALEA Standards
  
  January 04, 2024
  
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2023
- Public Safety Survey: We Want to Hear From You!
  
  October 17, 2023
  
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- Watch: Self-Awareness for Everyone (SAFE) Feature
  
  August 08, 2023
  
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- A Year in Review: Drexel University's Public Safety Oversight Committee
  
  June 12, 2023
  
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- DPS Workload and Crime Dashboard Updated With 2022 Data
  
  April 11, 2023
  
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- Wording Change Coming to DrexelAlert Messages
  
  March 29, 2023
  
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2022
- Melvin Singleton Jr. to Join Drexel as Vice President of Public Safety and Chief of Police
  
  November 04, 2022
  
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- Enhancing Public Safety Communications
  
  November 01, 2022
  
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- Enhancing Safety Throughout Our Campus and Neighborhoods
  
  October 18, 2022
  Over the past several days, many Drexel parents have reached out to me to express their apprehension about the state of public safety on and around Drexel's campus and wanting to know what we are doing to keep their children and all our students and employees safe.
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- Important Message on Public Safety
  
  October 17, 2022
  Over the last week, many of you have written to us to express growing concern around campus safety and security. We share your concerns. As incidents of gun violence have risen steadily throughout the City of Philadelphia over the past year, we have been applying more resources and measures toward keeping our community safe.
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- Introducing the Drexel Public Safety Workload and Crime Data Dashboard
  
  October 13, 2022
  As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen the relationship between the Drexel University Police Department (DUPD) and the University community, we are pleased to announced the launch of the Drexel Public Safety Workload and Crime Dashboard - a new way to view publicly available information about the work of DUPD.
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- 2022 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report
  
  September 29, 2022
  Drexel University's Department of Public Safety, in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) and The College and University Security Act of 1988, reports annually to its current and prospective students and employees the statistics for the previous three (3) years pertaining to reported crimes that have occurred on campus, in certain non-campus buildings or properties that are owned or controlled by Drexel University, and on public property within or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus.
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- Update and Advisory on Shooting at 35th Street Near Baring
  
  September 23, 2022
  We are writing to update you with the latest information about the fatal shooting that occurred on Sept. 22 in front of an apartment building on the 400 block of N. 35th Street near Baring Street.
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- Interim Leadership and Search for New Vice President of Public Safety & Chief of Police
  
  July 05, 2022
  Effective July 1, Drexel Police Captain of Investigations Robert Lis has assumed the role of interim vice president and chief of police while the University conducts a nationwide search to fill this role permanently.
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- Updates on Implementation of 21CP’s Recommendations for Drexel Public Safety
  
  June 07, 2022
  As part of our commitment to build a university community where everyone feels safe, supported and welcome, Drexel University is taking several steps to help us reimagine public safety as well as enhance public safety operations, informed in part by the recommendations 21CP Solutions made in its review of the Drexel University Police Department.
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2021
- A Note to the Drexel Community on 21CP Solutions Report
  
  June 01, 2021
  I am reaching out to the Drexel community and our neighbors, as Chief of the Drexel University Police Department, acknowledging my responsibility and accountability to our community: a responsibility to learn from the past and the 21CP Solutions report, to recognize the present conflicts and issues, and commit to working with our community against mistrust and injustice as we begin to re-envision public safety for Drexel.
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Public Safety & U

Melvin Singleton Jr. to Join Drexel as Vice President of Public Safety and Chief of Police
November 4, 2022
Enhancing Safety Throughout Our Campus and Neighborhoods
October 18, 2022
Important Message on Public Safety
October 17, 2022