Campus Police is staffed by 22 full-time employees and operates 24 hours a day. Campus officers are fully licensed peace officers vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities of peace officers in the state of Texas. Each is a police academy graduate who receives 40 or more hours of additional training every two years as required by law. Departmental policy, however, limits normal operational jurisdiction to the buildings and grounds of the main campus and certain off-campus clinics . Campus Police maintains an interagency relationship with the Fort Worth Police Department, and except for extraordinary circumstances refers all police calls outside its jurisdiction to the F.W.P.D. Campus Police provides comprehensive law enforcement services.
Officers routinely patrol the campus by car, bicycle, foot and occasionally by horseback.
State criminal laws are enforced, as are administrative and state traffic regulations governing driving and parking restrictions. Officers take police reports when an offense or an incident is reported, and criminal cases are filed in court when necessary. Communicators are responsible for answering telephone and walk-up complaints, dispatching calls, and monitoring surveillance cameras and alarm systems. PSOs are responsible for providing patients, visitors and vendors coming to the health science center with basic information such as instructions on where to park and directions on how to find campus facilities and personnel. PSOs are additionally responsible for driving courtesy shuttle vehicles for transporting patients to and from their vehicles to clinic entrances, and for bussing students, employees and visitors to and from the Remote Parking Lot to the main campus.