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4/26
The student-run organization, which includes nearly 70 undergraduates who are licensed EMTs, complements the Division of Public Safety and Philadelphia Fire Department by responding to medical emergencies on campus.
The charitable giving campaign runs through Nov. 19. The campaign is built on three pillars: health care disparity, food insecurity, and social justice.
COVID-19 presents challenges faced by first responders, including PennComm dispatchers and police officers.
In a Q&A, Gary Purpura of the Office of the Provost discusses the Student Campus Compact and behavioral expectations of students on campus in the fall semester.
The newly established Initiative seeks input through virtual hearings and public submissions as part of a comprehensive review of public safety at Penn.
Penn launches a public safety review and outreach initiative that seeks to conduct a comprehensive review and outreach program to assess Penn’s success in creating a physically and emotionally safe environment.
Twelve years ago, the trustees and the University’s senior leadership asked the schools and centers to develop plans to guide them continuing operations during a crisis. Those plans are now helping manage the impact of the pandemic.
In a matter of days, the University's Residential & Hospitality Services and Division of Business Services accomplished a move-out process that normally takes months.
The annual test of Penn’s Emergency Notification System will be accompanied by a fair promoting safety programs offered across campus.
For the 12th consecutive year, the Division of Public Safety took the top spot in the higher-education sector of Security magazine’s “Security 500.”
Jenna Ficchi of the Department of Public Safety is getting praise for connecting with a local cyclist and then helping him distribute sandwiches.
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During the pandemic, Penn Police are patrolling the exteriors of off-campus student housing. “We are not waiting for people to register their properties. We've been doing full-blown special checks at every house, every building, every church, etc., in the Penn patrol zone," said Vice President Maureen Rush of Public Safety.
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Jenna Ficci, an officer in Penn’s Police Department, has sewn more than 500 homemade masks for health care workers and first responders. “I think the real heroes are the medical workers, the nurses, the doctors,” Ficci said. “They’re the ones on the front line of this whole thing. I’m just doing what I can to help.”
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Vice President Maureen Rush of Public Safety, praised an officer in the Penn Police Department who replaced items stolen from a hospital patient with Down syndrome. The officer prefers to remain anonymous.
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Vice President Maureen Rush of Public Safety commented on the appointment of Philadelphia’s new police commissioner, Danielle Outlaw. When Rush started her law enforcement career in 1976, she said, she “would never have imagined that we would have had a woman commissioner, never mind a black woman commissioner, in the future.”
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Vice President Maureen Rush of Public Safety, one of the first 100 women to join Philadelphia’s police department, spoke about the role of women in law enforcement.
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