UC Davis Police Department

Front entrance to the combined Fire and Police Building UCDPD Patrol Cars

Campus Location	Behind Life Sciences Addition on Kleiber Hall Drive
Campus Office Hours	8am-5pm
Medical Center Location	42nd and V Streets
Medical Center Office Hours	Unknown
Emergency Phone	911 from a campus land line (530) 752-1230 from a cell phone
Business Phone	(530) 752-8943
Website	http://police.ucdavis.edu/

The UC Davis Police Department is part of the greater UC Police. The UC Davis Police are not part of the Davis Police Department but they have a mutual aid agreement, similar to the agreement they both have with neighboring cities like Woodland and West Sacramento. Considering that campus is not part of the City of Davis, it makes sense that it would have a separate police department.

In addition to enforcing the law at UC Davis and the UC Davis Medical Center, the UCD Police provide the campus lost and found, finger printing services (livescan), patrol ride-along, and personal safety education through CVPP. The Aggie Hosts, a student policing program, provides a free Campus Safety Escort Service. To use this service call 752-1727. Note that this is not part of the police force, but rather part of Campus Security, a separate organization.

The UC Davis campus is where you have the best chance of encountering UCD's scooter cop.

On May 18th, Annette Spicuzza was sworn in as Chief of Police, replacing Calvin Handy. The job has a salary of $125,000 a year. She is the first female chief at UCD, although Captain Rita Spaur was acting chief before accepting the position of Chief at UC Merced earlier.

752-1230 would be a very good number for cell phone users to program into their phones. Also 758-3600 for non-campus emergencies. When you dial 911 from a cell phone, you are connected with a CHP dispatcher who generally has no idea what's going on. It will significantly reduce the emergency response time if you call dispatch directly.

ASUCD created the ASUCD Student-Police Relations Committee to create sustained dialogues between students and both police departments. As part of the sub-committee work, the UC Davis Police Department answered a list of frequently asked student questions of the police - FAQ Student-Police.

The department periodically offers a Citizens' Police Academy to the general public to improve relations with and educate the general public.

On Dec. 14, 2004, UC Davis police shot and killed Martin Louie Castro Soriano, a 26-year old vistor from Antioch, outside of Regan Main. Soriano, who was high on meth, had shot at the cops when they attempted to subdue him with a Taser. The police were cleared of wrongdoing.

UC police have the same kind of legal protection as state troopers, which makes them incredibly difficult to sue for issues of police misconduct.
This is due to the fact that they *ARE* state troopers (what better location to stage state troopers than the UC system scattered thru Cali...) One could pull you over in LA for a traffic infraction and be legally justified in doing so. Even though they have oodles of power, they are rarely itching to use it and have been known to refuse assistance requests from DPD when asked to go handle something in el macero. UCD cops mainly stay on or very close to campus —StevenDaubert

Walter W. Wadman was the first UCD Police officer.

• Police Misconduct Stories

Reported on February 3, 2009 a police officer was fired for being openly gay:

"Calvin Chang, who is openly gay, says his dream of being an officer is over.

"Basically, they destroyed me," he said. "All I wanted to be was a police officer all my life."

Chang says those dreams are gong after what allegedly happened at the UC Davis Police Department, his former employer. In a lawsuit filed this week, he claims his supervisor called him derogatory names.

"My own supervisor referred to me as a f—ing fag," Chang said.

Chang was initially fired by UC Davis Police in 2003. His managers told him he was a high-risk officer because of three car accidents. He was reinstated after an investigator, and then fired again last spring over allegations that he failed to have a backup officer during a search." Clipped from: CBS 13 Reports

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