Campus Services

LiveSafe is a mobile safety app for GU students, faculty and staff.

LiveSafe App Features:

• Tips: Anonymously reach GUPD to submit information about suspicious activity, harassment, noise complaints, mental health problems and any other safety issues you may experience. Option to add photos, audio or video to your message enabling officers to better respond to the issue.
• Request a SafeRide: Allows the user to request a SafeRide. This point-to-point service operates from 8 p.m. until 2 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday, and until 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday.
• SafeWalk: Allows users to add friends, share your location when you leave a location, stay in constant communication with those friends while you walk to your destination and send a group chat when you reach your destination safely. If you run into trouble, you can contact police from within the app.
• Instant Emergency Connection via chat or phone: In the case of an emergency where you need immediate assistance you can choose to contact 911, or campus police. If you choose to call or message campus police, location tracking will begin, allowing officers to respond to your exact location.
• Access to Important Resources: Sexual Assault, Mental Health and Bias Reporting resources are listed on the LiveSafe App.
• Campus Emergency Response Guide: This guide contains important information on how to respond to various emergencies on campus.

Georgetown University Police Department (GUPD) assesses security on campus to ensure a safe living and learning environment and to mitigate threats to the University community.

To request a security detail for your next event, please submit a request through either our embedded form or linked form.

Special events are assessed by GUPD to ensure that proper security is in place.

Events that typically require a GUPD presence are:

• Events in large venues, such as Gaston Hall and Lohrfink Auditorium,
• Events with controversial speakers or topics or
• Events in which alcohol is served, there is amplified sound or cash intake.

There may also need to be a speech and expression representative present. Please visit the University’s speech and expression website for more information on the speech and expression policy.

Please note that there may be other contributing factors which GUPD may deem it is necessary to have GUPD staff personnel at your event.

The Georgetown University Police Department is not funded to provide security at special events. It is the event sponsor’s responsibility to provide funding.

The current hourly rate for Event Security Services is $65.65 per hour, per officer. Events requiring security that take place on recognized University Holidays will be subject to an hourly rate is $98.50 per hour, per officer. GUPD reserves the right to determine staffing levels for all events. In general, GUPD will staff one officer per 75 event participants, however, this ratio may change depending on the type of event in order to provide a safe and secure environment for everyone involved. *Note that there is a four (4) hour minimum per officer for any scheduled event.

Administrative Fee: Event security requests must be submitted at least seven (7) days prior to the event date. Requests submitted less than seven (7) business days prior to the event date will be charged a $500 Administrative Fee. Submitting requests with less than seven (7) days notice places GUPD and its officers in a position that creates an undue burden on officers and staff in getting your event staffed properly. We encourage you to create your Event Security Request as soon as you plan your event. You can always cancel your event up to 48 hours prior to your event with no penalty.

For scheduled events that are canceled by the sponsor with less than 48 hours’ notice, every effort will be made to ensure full cancellation without charge. However, as our department is subject to contractual obligations if such cancellation cannot fully be completed on our end, the sponsor understands and agrees (by virtue of completing the event security request form) that they may still be subject to a full or partial charge for the event.

If you’ve recently requested security services from GUPD, tell us about your experience. Please take a brief survey and let us know how we did by completing the feedback form.

All Georgetown One Cards (GOCards) received by the Lost and Found are sent to the GOCard Office at the opening of business Monday through Friday.

To inquire about a lost GOCard, please contact the GOCard Office directly, at 202- 687-2700, located on the ground floor of Darnall Hall (G-3). To check to see if your card was received by Department of Public Safety, please call 202- 687-4343 Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

You should deactivate your GOCard as soon as possible upon discovering that it is missing. This can be accomplished in several convenient ways. You can visit the online card office website and deactivate your GOCard online 24 hours a day. Once deactivated, no one will be able to use your card. When you obtain your new GOCard, your Debit Account balances will be available immediately. A lost card does not mean lost money if it is reported promptly. Refer to the GOCard Terms and Conditions for further details on lost and stolen cards.

Download the LiveSafe App or call 202-784-RIDE.

No. You must have called in for a pick-up at a specific location.

No, open food and beverages are prohibited from being inside the SafeRide vehicles.

SafeRides service begins every evening at 8 p.m. The service is available until 2 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday, and until 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday.

The van will wait for a minute or so. If they are not contacted by you then they will continue on to their next pick-up location.

Please use this link to redirect to the GUPD Feedback Form.