University Relations 202 Eielson Bldg. Community policing taps into an old idea - having officers walk a neighborhood beat to act as problem solvers and visible deterrents to crime. UAF is the main residential campus for the UA system with about 1,700 of its approximately 7,000 Fairbanks students living on-campus. The university is often compared to a small city because it operates a post office, fire department, food services, a small grocery store and a bookstore which sells sundry items.
Residence halls are the neighborhoods of the campus community.
The goal is not to increase the number of arrests or reports we write. Our focus is on working with students as partners to prevent a crisis before it happens. Officer Barnes will be assisting and expanding programs dealing with neighborhood watch in the residence halls and other programs that benefit the campus community, said Vrabec. UAF's police headquarters is co-located in a building near the center of the campus which houses the UAF fire department and university health center. The police department includes 12 full-time officers.