University of California Community Safety

The Office of Systemwide Community Safety engages across the university to implement practices that improve consistency, transparency and accountability and demonstrate a community-oriented approach to safety and security. This office directly supports the full implementation of the UC Community Safety Plan.

View the 2025 UC Accountability Report.

Transformational Policing

Since 2019, the UC San Diego Police Department has engaged in the transformational policing initiative to implement a cultural shift that promotes justice and equity, fostering trust, collaborative community relationships and training officers to approach their work as partners in the communities that they protect to support positive change through a culturally centered lens.

This includes an awareness of the history of policing and implicit bias training in partnership with the UC San Diego Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Visit the UC San Diego Police Department website to learn more about the resources, policies and procedures associated with transformational policing initiatives.

Continuous Improvement

At UC San Diego, transparency and continuous improvement through data is supported locally by the efforts of staff, faculty and students alike whose actions, advocacy and dedication to equity and inclusion through service support continual progress towards a safe and supportive UC San Diego. These commitments include budgetary reallocations across multiple departments to expand support for programs that increase access to culturally responsive, trauma-informed resources in the areas of student mental health and wellbeing, physical and interpersonal safety, and environmental safety and security.

Data Dashboard

The UC Community Safety Plan creates standards for UC campuses to collect and publicly share data on campus safety and to share this systemwide information on dashboards. The UC San Diego Police Department contributes campus-level data to these systemwide dashboards to provide transparency on their policies, procedures, budget and activity. The University of California Office of the President manages the data dashboard.