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Mission Statement of the Georgetown University Police Department:

Georgetown University Police Department’s mission is to protect the Georgetown University community, ensuring a safe and secure learning and living environment through trusting partnerships and professional police services.

The Georgetown University Police Department (GUPD) has been protecting the Georgetown University Community since the mid-1800s. From its inception as a day and night watchman operation, the Department has grown to meet the demands of our contemporary era, developing into a diversified workforce comprised of 60 sworn officers and eight civilian support staff.

Today GUPD provides police and security services on the Georgetown University Main, Capitol, and Medical Center campuses, as well as off-campus properties. Mobilizing on foot, in vehicles and on bicycles, the officers patrol the campus twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. GUPD officers are commissioned special police, vested through the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), with full powers of arrest when on campus property. GUPD works closely with MPD and the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Service to prevent and deter crime on campus and in the surrounding communities, enhance safety and respond quickly to incidents.

The Georgetown University Police Department is located on the first floor of Village C West at the Hilltop Campus and in McDonough Hall, Office 102 at Capitol Campus.