UF Student Body President Ben Meyers and the seven other members of the UPD Campus Advisory Committee will meet Friday to discuss issues affecting the relationship between University Police and the UF campus community.
A UF student reported being sexually battered to Gainesville Police early Tuesday morning.
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Long-haul trucker John Boyer's gray beard and round face give him a grandfatherly appearance, but when he opens his mouth, he seethes with anger toward women. This hatred had murderous results, authorities said, as he picked up prostitutes around the Southeast, killed them and dumped their bodies near interstate highways. He's accused of at least three slayings and is suspected in a fourth.
If you live with your significant other and don't happen to be married, you could be committing a crime in Florida.
The conduct evaluation was prompted by UPD Officer Keith Smith's handling of a traffic stop on July 23, when he threatened to shoot a 20-year-old man whom he pulled over on a charge of reckless driving.
A traffic stop that turned violent was the straw that broke the camel's back for UPD officer Keith Smith, the same officer who shot a graduate student in the face on campus two years ago.
The University Police doesn't just want to protect students who live on campus - it wants to foster a better relationship with them, too.
A homeless, middle-aged couple was arrested outside of the Hub on Thursday afternoon after plainclothes officers interrupted what they suspected was a bicycle theft.
The promising career of a Florida track and field athlete came to a disturbing close when he was arrested Tuesday on a charge of sexual assault, stemming from an incident just hours after competing at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
As I sat in the University Police Department's "classroom," watching a slide show jam-packed with gory images of drunk driving accidents and roads littered with mangled bodies, I felt like something wasn't right.
As he laid his Bible and handgun ever so carefully down on a music stand, Terry Jones slowly made his way to the pulpit to deliver his sermon.
A police traffic service that cut down car crashes may be coming back after a lack of funding took it off the books.
We understand that people forfeit some of their rights when they break the law. It’s just, and it’s part of the due punishment our justice system provides.
A year after the shooting of international UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong by University Police, UF students and administrators are still working to improve policies to prevent such incidents in the future.
When Henri Belleville became a University Police officer, he knew he’d be expected to help his fellow fallen officers. But he didn’t expect that would be in a fitness center.
When Chief Tony Jones became head of the Gainesville Police Department in 2009, one of his goals was to decrease crime in the city by 5 percent.
These days, the talk is all about prevention.
Newly released documents from the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office detail the events leading up to the murder of UF student Saleha Huuda and the arrests of Antonio Drayton and Cassandra Kimbrough.
Police arrested two Gainesville residents Wednesday in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Saleha Huuda.
Gainesville Police Department may be eliminated and put under the control of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office. Mayor Craig Lowe and the Gainesville Commission want to keep GPD and are asking citizens to help save it.
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