UIPD releases 2018 Year In Review
URBANA, Ill. – The University of Illinois Police Department on Friday released its 2018 Year In Review, which details some of the biggest trends, initiatives, public safety issues and other items of interest throughout the previous school year. The report also includes statistics for the previous school year and information on how Illinois compares to similar institutions with regard to crime on campus. “It is my privilege to report that we continue to have a very safe campus community where our students, faculty and staff can live, study and work,” U. of I. Police Chief Craig Stone wrote in his [...]
Efforts to keep campus informed recognized nationally
BALTIMORE – The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s efforts to keep community members informed of public safety issues has earned the “Clery Compliance Program of the Year” award. Named after a student who was killed in 1986 at Lehigh University, the federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act requires all colleges and universities to track and publish crime data, as well as issue timely warnings when a significant crime poses an ongoing threat to the campus community. The law aims to make campuses safer by helping students and their loved ones to make informed [...]
Police release additional information regarding officer-involved shooting
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Champaign County Sheriff’s Office and University of Illinois Police Department are releasing more information about an officer-involved shooting which occurred Thursday evening. The incident remains under investigation by the Illinois State Police. After receiving a call at 6:22 p.m. Thursday about a man with a handgun, U. of I. Police officers Chuck Hoskins and A.J. Martin, along with Champaign County Sheriff’s Deputy Cory Christensen, responded to the area of John and Locust streets, Champaign. Upon searching the area, they came into contact with a man matching the description, U. of I. student Samuel Applebaum, 23, of [...]
Police release preliminary information regarding officer-involved shooting
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Illinois State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting after U. of I. Police officers and a Champaign County Sheriff's Deputy responded to a citizen's call regarding a person loading a semiautomatic handgun near John and Locust streets in Champaign. The person was described as a white male in his 20s with brown hair, medium height, and wearing a short sleeve gray T-shirt. Upon searching the area, officers came into contact with an armed person matching that description and ordered him to drop the gun. The man did not comply with officers' orders. Preliminary investigation indicates that three [...]
Generous donation helps UIPD body camera project
URBANA, Ill. – Thanks to a generous donation from Jim and Barb Esworthy of the Journey Foundation, the University of Illinois Police Department is moving toward equipping all of its officers with body cameras. On Friday, the Esworthys presented to the police department a $6,000 check, which will go toward converting the department’s existing squad-car camera and video management systems to the same system that the body cameras will run on. Converting everything to the same system will allow the department’s squad car cameras have a wider range of view, and it will make the management of video and associated [...]