Campus Safety

Each regional campus maintains a fully staffed police headquarters, and emergency contact information varies by location. While the police chiefs in Newark and Camden report to their respective chancellor’s office, all follow policies and procedures, administrative practices, and emergency operational plans established for the entire university.

For campus-specific public safety information, go to:
    • Rutgers–New Brunswick Public Safety
    • Rutgers–Newark Public Safety
    • Rutgers–Camden Public Safety

Emergency Preparedness and Notification

Rutgers works with neighboring police departments, local governments, the State of New Jersey, and the National Guard in mutual aid partnerships and regularly conducts exercises designed to better prepare the university for any kind of emergency or disaster. Based on lessons learned from these drills and from experiences at other universities nationwide, Rutgers continuously reviews and updates its emergency operational plans.

The university’s emergency notification system uses many different and overlapping mechanisms to provide time-critical information to the Rutgers community, as no single mechanism is sufficient to provide blanket notification. Methods include email, website announcements, TV, radio, and text messaging to cell phones, as well as low-tech mass communications such as electronic signs, bullhorns, and police car speaker systems. As with all emergency planning, our notification systems are regularly tested and upgraded.