Police officers at Coffee with a Cop community event

University Police Community Survey Reports

Penn State University Police and Public Safety conducts a University-wide survey of students and employees to learn more about their attitudes and opinions related to the department’s police division. The survey is being conducted as part of the police department’s accreditation process through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). The accreditation seal is for police agencies that have demonstrated compliance with CALEA standards, which includes surveying the agency’s community every two years about the police department’s:

overall performance;
overall competency of agency employees;
citizens’ perception of officers’ attitudes and behavior;
community concern over safety and security within University Police’s jurisdiction; and
citizens’ recommendations and suggestions for improvements.

The survey is intended to be used as a platform for organizational learning, asking specific questions about the quality of policing in the community and to measure how policing in that community affects public trust.

University Police & Public Safety Community Survey Dashboard

2022 All Campuses Dashboard Link

AGGREGATE (Department-wide Report)

2022 Aggregate Community Survey Report [PDF]

University Police & Public Safety Community Survey Reports

Reports are available for the campuses where University Police provided services during the year the survey was distributed except where noted.

DICKINSON LAW

2019: All employees and students at Dickinson Law were invited to take the survey, but only 25 did so. While their overall response rate (8%) was not that different than other campuses, the raw numbers were too small to draw reliable conclusions about the community experience with and perceptions of law enforcement. Dickinson community members' responses are included in the overall University report.