{"id":237,"date":"2016-07-19T17:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T21:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/police\/?page_id=237"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:19:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/police\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston University Police Department (BUPD) is a full-time, professional law enforcement agency that provides a wide variety of public services, including alarms, emergency medical assistance, investigating suspicious circumstances, as well as responding to and investigating criminal matters.<\/p>\n<p>BUPD\u00a0patrols all three campuses 24 hours a day, spanning an area that includes over 132 acres of University-owned property and surrounding streets. Emergency response time is generally under three minutes to any location on campus. Boston University has 50 state-trained and deputized police officers.<\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to the BU Police, on\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/\">Boston University\u2019s Medical Campus<\/a><span>, BUMC Public Safety provides services and support to the Schools of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/\">Dental Medicine<\/a><span>,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/\">Public Health<\/a><span>,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/\">Medicine<\/a><span>,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/\">Graduate Medical Sciences<\/a><span>, and the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/\">National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory<\/a><span>\u00a0(NEIDL). BU Public Safety officers are highly-trained individuals who protect people and property and provide services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BUPD and BUMC Public Safety are actively engaged with the community, working to promote the safety and security of the campus and surrounding communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston University Police Department (BUPD) is a full-time, professional law enforcement agency that provides a wide variety of public services, including alarms, emergency medical assistance, investigating suspicious circumstances, as well as responding to and investigating criminal matters. BUPD\u00a0patrols all three campuses 24 hours a day, spanning an area that includes over 132 acres of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/police\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}