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Behind the Badge: UPD Chief reads to preschoolers

Behind the Badge: UPD Chief reads to preschoolers

Sam Chaney | Mar 7, 2018

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcvlowgHwdU[/embedyt] Video by Jas Chung “Don’t you want a sticker?” Chief Mackesy asked the room of excitable preschool children. “If you want a...

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Crime Prevention: So easy, an Osprey could do it

Sam Chaney | Mar 4, 2018

Let’s be honest, it can just be so easy to be lazy with your stuff. I mean, you’re only going to the restroom, right? Your stuff should be fine on the table for five minutes. But then you come back...

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Police Beat: Stolen laundry, sexual harassment, and online threats

Sam Chaney | Mar 1, 2018

Stolen Laundry UNFPD were dispatched to Bldg. 17 when a student reported his laundry had been stolen on Feb. 22. The student told officials his laundry was taken from the community laundry room....

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Active shooter safety: What if it happened at UNF?

Active shooter safety: What if it happened at UNF?

Sam Chaney | Feb 27, 2018

In some cases, it can be too easy to believe that tragedies are events that happen to other people in other places; never here, and never to us. However, the recent school shooting in Parkland has proved...

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Police Beat: Lost property and damaged signs

Sam Chaney | Feb 21, 2018

Where’s My Tablet? UNFPD was dispatched to Bldg. 4 on Feb. 19 in response to a report of a lost tablet. According to the police report, a UNF staff member stated that she may have taken her Microsoft...

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Religious group associated with claims of sex-trafficking found at UNF

Religious group associated with claims of sex-trafficking found at UNF

Sam Chaney | Feb 20, 2018

Reports of a sex-trafficking religious group on college campuses have been popping up all over the country, and a member of the group has recently been spotted here at UNF. The University of North Florida...

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Police Beat: Stolen Beats and other valuables

Sam Chaney | Feb 20, 2018

Don’t Drop the Beat A student met with UNFPD at the Student Union game room on Feb. 8 to report a stolen pair of Beats headphones. According to the police report, the student was sitting in the...

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UPD recruits new Safety Rangers

Sam Chaney | Feb 8, 2018

In trying to survive the UNF Hunger Games known as parking, students have to search for a space, dodge citations and try to avoid colliding with each other both physically and emotionally. Now, however,...

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Police Beat: Stolen skateboard and a creepy car

Sam Chaney | Jan 25, 2018

So Long, Longboard A UNF student contacted officials on Jan. 16 to report a stolen skateboard that was valued at $100. According to the police report, the student entered the Osprey Commons Cafeteria...

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Funding for new body-cameras for UNF police

Sam Chaney | Jan 16, 2018

The University of North Florida Police Department (UNFPD) recently announced that it was provided with a federal grant through the Department of Justice in order to supply them with new body-worn cameras. The...

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Police Beat: JTA Confrontation and Stolen Decal

Sam Chaney | Jan 12, 2018

This Is Your Stop University of North Florida Police Department (UNFPD) arrested Joseph Alexander Menter for battery on Jan. 8 when a dispute on a Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) bus was...

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Police Beat: Threatening emails and a forceable arrest

Alexandra Torres-Perez | Dec 19, 2017

Give Me Some Bitcoins A UNF student called UNFPD in regards to an email he received on Dec. 11 threatening that if he did not pay a certain amount of Bitcoins he was going to be executed. According...

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