Divisions

The University of Colorado Boulder Police Department is a full-service police department with divisions similar to a municipal department, as well as some divisions not typically found in a municipal department. 

These divisions include:

Police Operations

• Patrol operations, including an embedded mental health clinician/co-responder.
• Investigations section, including an embedded victim advocate.
• Residential Service operations, including Residential Service Officers (RSOs), who support our residential community, providing education and appropriate enforcement on lower-level violations in residence halls.       
• Property & Evidence section, which is the first university police department in North America to earn the SCS Northwest Evidence Management Professional Accreditation certificate.                    

Professional Standards 

• Training section
• Records section, which  provides a fundamental mission services to CUPD, acting as the custodian of criminal justice records for the agency.
• CUPD accreditation section.                                                                                          

CUPD also includes an administration section, with an executive assistant to the Chief of Police and a data analyst, which is a shared position with the Boulder Police Department. 

In addition, a technology and information section supports IT needs with the department.