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Officer Thompson with the custodial staff, October 2024.

Connecting the community with coffee

Bleron Grajçevci, Campus Journalist October 27, 2024

UW-Whitewater Police Department’s Rock County Resource Officer Nicolas Thompson held an event where students and community members could sit and have conversations with him over a cup of coffee. Officer...

911 landline call issue resolved

911 landline call issue resolved

Katie Popp, Assistant Campus News Editor September 18, 2022

Around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 7 a rescue call from a campus landline phone was redirected to the Milwaukee emergency dispatch as opposed to the dispatch location on the UW-Whitewater campus. The call...

Sexual assault reported

September 16, 2019

On September 12, 2019 UW-Whitewater received a report of a sexual assault that had taken place on September 11, 2019 in the area of Lee Hall on the Whitewater campus.  Suspect is described as male, Hispanic,...

New safety devices installed in classrooms

Shannon Columb, Staff Writer February 8, 2017

A new addition to classrooms at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater offers students and  faculty with extra safety during an emergency lockdown. Since December 2016, Faculties Planning and Management...

Officer Dan Kuehl posing next to a patrol van.
“We are State Police Officers,” Kuehl said. “We are just like any other Police Officer, we are not security. We follow the same laws and have the same toys on our belt. The only difference is jurisdiction, and every police department has their own jurisdiction. If there is anything I’d like to clear up, it’d be that.”
Amber Levenhagen Photo/ LevenhagAL14@uww.edu

Police ride along program available to local community

February 25, 2015

Go for a spin Feb. 25, 2015 By Amber Levenhagen [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen participating in a ride along with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Police Services (UWWPS), the only thing off limits...

UW-Whitewater Police launch Safety Initiative

September 5, 2014

Sept. 3, 2014 Dear Editor: How many potentially life or death decisions do you make?  Although it might not seem like a decision with drastic consequences, your choice to give up your car keys when...

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