Alerts
UMPD Conducting Active Shooter Response Training on Campus for Officers
For the next nine weeks at various residence halls on campus, the University of Maryland Police Department (UMPD) is partnering with the Maryland State Police (MSP) in an active shooter response training program, called Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT). This dynamic course of instruction is designed to prepare the first responder to isolate, distract, and neutralize an active shooter. The course curriculum teaches advanced concepts and principles of team movement, setting up for room entry and room entry techniques, approach and breaching the crisis site, follow-on responder tactics, improvised explosive devices (IED's), and post-engagement priorities of work. The training is recognized by the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commissions and is being used by UMPD for our mandatory in-service training for 2014.
Thank you to our Journalism classes 262/320 & Professors
At the end of April, Chief David B. Mitchell was invited to be part of an interactive press conference on the topic of pedestrian safety. Many thanks to the journalism students of class 262 & 320 and their professors for organizing, conducting, and participating in the press conference, and creating an exercise that is applicable to the learning experience. With assistance from social media, students were able to tweet a short video from the press conference, quickly providing our message to a much broader audience. Thank you for providing a platform for us to address this issue, and shed light on solutions to help prevent any future pedestrian involved accidents. As President Loh has mentioned in the video, http://umpdnews.umd.edu/node/187, safety is everyone’s responsibility. We need everyone’s help in preventing accidents.
Off-Campus UMD Safety Notice 05/19/14
Please visit http://universityofmarylandpolice.com/crime_alert_offcampus_detail.cfm?id=740 for information regarding an off-campus breaking & entering that occurred on 05/17/14. Prince George’s County Police Department is the primary reporting agency and is conducting the investigation.
Chief David B. Mitchell Inducted into the National Concerns Of Police Survivors Hall of Fame
Earlier this week, Chief David B. Mitchell was honored at the Concerns Of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) National Chapter 30th Anniversary Hall of Fame Dinner in Washington D.C. for his commitment to officers who die in the line of duty and their surviving families.
UMPD Responds to Report of Suspicious Activity
On 05/10/14, at approximately 12:25 a.m., the University of Maryland Police Department received a report of a suspicious male, possibly armed, on the footbridge between the back side of the View and lot 11B area. Officers responded and saturated the area and were unable to locate any criminal activity or anyone fitting the description given by the reporting person. The incident remains under investigation. Anyone with information, please call UMPD at 301-405-3555. ###