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Alarm - Fire, Intrusion, Panic, Other

• Alarm-Fire – documents incidents where HUPD receives fire alarm notifications. Officers as well as fire department personnel are dispatched to determine the cause of the alarm and to ensure public safety.
• Alarm-Intrusion – documents incidents where HUPD receives an intrusion alarm notification for an exterior door or an interior area protected by an alarm. Officers are dispatched to determine the cause of the alarm and to ensure public safety.
• Alarm Panic – documents incidents where HUPD receives a duress alarm notification. Officers are dispatched to determine the cause of the alarm and to ensure public safety.
• Alarm Other – documents incidents where officers are dispatched to an audible alarm to determine the cause and to ensure public safety.

Annoying and Accosting/Disorderly Conduct, Liquor/Drug Law Violation

• Annoying and Accosting - documents incidents of engaging in knowingly offensive and disorderly act(s).
• Disorderly Conduct - documents incidents of fighting/threatening behavior, or other hazardous or physically offensive conduct, that served no legitimate purpose.
• Liquor/Drug Law Violation - documents incidents of the unlawful possession, sale, use, or distribution of illicit drugs and/or alcohol on Harvard University property.

Assault/Assault and Battery

• Assault/Assault and Battery - documents incidents of an unlawful physical attack by one person upon another or when an individual is placed in fear of violence as a result of another individual's behavior.

Assist Other PD/Agency

• Assist Local Police – documents incidents where HUPD officers assist a local law enforcement agency, including Cambridge PD, Boston PD, State PD, and Transit PD. Officers frequently assist local police departments for medical calls, motor vehicle accidents, or thefts in another jurisdiction.
• Assist Other Agency – documents incidents where HUPD officers assist another agency, including fire departments or federal agencies.

Disturbance, Noise or Skateboard/Bike Complaint, Visitor Conduct/Unwanted Guest

• Bike/Skateboard Complaint - documents incidents where HUPD receives a complaint of individuals skateboarding and/or biking on Harvard University property.
• Disturbance – documents incidents where HUPD receives a report of an individual disturbing the peace, usually by arguing or loud noises. Officers are dispatched to determine the cause of the disturbance and request the individual(s) keep the noise level down or send them on their way.
• Noise Complaint/Loud Party – documents incidents where HUPD officers become aware of excessive noise or a loud gathering. Officers determine the source of the noise and request the noise level be kept down or individuals disperse from the area.
• Visitor Conduct/Unwanted Guest – documents incidents where visitors have acted in a manner that either violates criminal law or University guidelines, and the person is asked by an HUPD officer to either cease their behavior or leave University property.

Escort, Assist Other Harvard Department/Citizen/Motorist

• Assist Other Harvard Department – documents incidents where HUPD officers assist another Harvard department, including but not limited to, Environmental Health & Safety, Campus Services, or Harvard University Health Services.
• Courtesy Escort – documents incidents where an HUPD officer escorts students, faculty, staff, or visitors, either on foot or in a vehicle, to another location on campus or to a location nearby.
• Assist Citizen/Motorist – documents incidents where an HUPD officer writes a courtesy report detailing credit/debit card fraud, identity fraud, internet scams, or assists motorist with directions.

Fraud/Forgery/Embezzlement

• Embezzlement – documents the unlawful misappropriation by an offender to his/her own use or purpose of money, property, or some other thing of value entrusted to his/her care, custody, or control.
• Forgery – documents the altering, copying, or imitating of something, without authority or right, with the intent to deceive or defraud by passing the copy or thing altered or imitated as that which is original or genuine, or the selling, buying, or possession of an altered, copied, or imitated thing with the intent to deceive or defraud.
• Fraud – The intentional perversion of the truth for the purpose of inducing another person or other entity in reliance upon it to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right.

Field Interview/Warrant Arrest

• Field Interview - A "field stop", also known as a "Terry stop", occurs when an officer briefly detains an individual based on their reasonable articulable suspicion that the individual is engaging in, or about to engage in a criminal behavior. During the course of the field stop, the office request identification from the individual stopped and may make an inquiry via the state and the FBI to determine if the individual has an active warrant for their arrest.
• Warrant Arrest - documents incidents where HUPD places an individual under arrest for an active warrant. A warrant arrest may occur following a field interview if any officer makes an inquiry via the state and the FBI to determine if the individual has an active warrant.

Found/Recovered/Lost Property

• Found/Recovered Property – documents incidents where an individual turns in found or abandoned property located on campus, or property located off campus, which belongs to an affiliate.
• Lost Property - documents incidents where a student, faculty, staff, or visitor reports the loss of personal or University property on campus.

Harassment/Stalking/Peeping and Spying/Wiretapping

• Harassment - incidents of a pattern of conduct or series of knowing acts over a period of time directed at a specific person, which seriously alarm that person and would cause a reasonable individual to suffer substantial emotional distress.
• Peeping and Spying - documents incidents of photographing, videotaping or electronically surveilling partially nude or nude person.
• Stalking - documents incidents of behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person’s safety or the safety of others; or suffer substantial emotional distress.
• Wiretapping – documents the recording, interception, use or disclosure of any conversation, whether in person or over the telephone, without the permission of all the parties.

Hazardous Condition/Bomb Threat/Fire

• Hazardous Condition - documents incidents of condition that may adversely affect the safety of any individual or property. Hazardous conditions may include, but are not limited to, chemical spills,
• Bomb Threat - documents incidents of the willful and malicious communication verbal or written, to detonate an explosive or incendiary device.
• Fire – documents incidents of as any instance of open flame or other burning in a place not intended to contain the burning or in an uncontrolled manner.

Lockin/Out, Open Door/Window, Stuck Elevator

• Lockout/Lockin – documents incidents where HUPD officers assist a student, faculty, or staff who is locked out of or locked in at a location on campus.
• Open Door/Window – documents incidents where HUPD receives a report of an open door and/or window. Officers are dispatched to determine the reason for the open door/window, secure the area, and ensure all is well.
• Stuck Elevator - documents incidents where HUPD receives a report of a stuck elevator.

Medical Call/Check Wellbeing

• 911 Call Abandoned – documents 911 call hang-ups received by Boston, Cambridge, or Somerville Police where HUPD officers are dispatched to determine the reason for the hang-up and to ensure all is well.
• Check Wellbeing - documents incidents where a student, faculty, staff, or visitor may be in need of medical assistance and an HUPD officer and/or emergency medical personnel assess the individual.
• Medical Call – documents incidents where a student, faculty, staff, or visitor is either sick or injured and an HUPD officer and/or emergency medical personnel assess the individual, which could result in a transport to either HUHS or an outside medical facility

Missing Person

• Missing Person - documents incidents where HUPD receives a report of the absence of a student, faculty, staff, or visitor without an apparent reason.

Motor Vehicle Accident, Parking/Traffic Complaint/Tow

• Motor Vehicle Accident - documents incidents of a vehicle in motion striking another vehicle or property.
• Parking/Traffic/Condition/Tow – documents incidents involving a broken down vehicle, an illegally parked vehicle, a vehicle blocking the roadway, or a vehicle tow.

Property Damage/Vandalism

• Property Damage - documents incidents of unintentional damage to Harvard University property or personal property.
• Vandalism - documents incidents of deliberate damage or destruction to Harvard University property.

Sex Offense

• Sex Offense - documents incidents of Rape (MGL Ch. 265, Sec. 22), Indecent Assault (MGL Ch. 265, Sec. 13H), and Open and Gross (MGL Ch. 272, Sec. 16).

Special Event, Demonstration

• Special Event/Demonstration - documents incidents where HUPD receives a report or observes a demonstration.

Suspicious Activity

• Suspicious Activity – documents incidents where HUPD officers become aware of concerning, non-criminal behavior occurring on campus. Incidents of suspicious activity may include an individual examining bicycles near a bike rack for an extended period of time or an individual peering into windows of University buildings.

Theft/Receiving Stolen Property

• Theft Report – documents incidents where a student, faculty, staff, or visitor reports the theft of personal or University property on campus.
• Receiving Stolen Property - documents incidents where an individual knowingly receives, or assist in the concealment or buying, of stolen property.

Threat / Threat to commit a crime

• Threat / Threat to Commit a Crime – documents incidents where an individual threatens to commit a crime against a person or their property.

Trespass Warning/Trespass Letter/Trespassing

• Trespass Warning – documents incidents where individuals acted in a manner that either violates criminal law or University guidelines, and as a result, the person is issued a trespass warning for Harvard University property. Trespass warnings may also be issued upon the request of University officials. If a person returns to Harvard University property after being issued a trespass warning, the individual is subject to arrest.
• Trespass Letter - documents incidents where HUPD issues a written a trespass warning for Harvard University property following behavior that either violates criminal law or University guidelines. Trespass letters may be issued upon the request of University officials. If a person returns to Harvard University property after being issued a trespass letter, the individual is subject to arrest.
• Trespassing - documents incidents where an individual enters or remains on Harvard University property without permission, or enters onto Harvard University property after being issued a trespass warning/letter.

Unfounded - When the investigation discloses that the alleged acts did not occur or did not involve department members. Complaints that are determined to be frivolous will fall within the classification of unfounded.

Exonerated - When the investigation discloses that the alleged act occurred but that the act was justified, lawful, and/or proper.

Not sustained - When the investigation discloses that there is insufficient evidence to sustain the complaint or fully exonerate the member.

Sustained - When the investigation discloses sufficient evidence to establish that the act occurred and that it constituted misconduct.

In Progress - When the investigation is open and ongoing.