Message from the Chief

It is with great pride that we welcome you to the Western Kentucky University Police Department Web site. The Western Kentucky University Police Department is committed to supporting the educational goals of the university community, by preserving the peace, protecting life and property, impartially enforcing the regulations of Western Kentucky University, the ordinances of the City of Bowling Green, and the statutes of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The mission of the Western Kentucky University Police Department is to establish and maintain an atmosphere that is conducive to the learning process, without restricting academic Freedom. To this end, the Western Kentucky University Police Department pledges the following:

To provide fair and impartial law enforcement service to faculty, staff, students, and visitors.

To create and nurture a supportive, caring environment for faculty, staff, students, and visitors, thorough the utilization of Community Policing Principles by the Western Kentucky University Police Department.

To provide a police department that is diverse and that remains sensitive to the needs and the comfort level of a diverse faculty, staff, students, and visitor population.

We look forward to working with you in order to provide an atmosphere that will encourage learning and community cooperation. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, concerns or suggestions that will enable us to better serve your safety and security needs.

MISSION STATEMENT

Western Kentucky University is an educational institution committed to the intellectual, emotional, occupational, social, cultural, moral and physical growth and development of all its various constituencies. The University community is also committed to being purposeful, open, just, disciplined, caring and celebrate. The mission of the division of Student Affairs is to embrace the above principles and to impact the continuous learning about self and environment. The mission of the Western Kentucky University Police Department is to support the educational objectives of the University by crime prevention programming, preserving the peace, protecting life and property, and enforcing in a fair and impartial manner the regulations of the University, ordinances of Bowling Green, and the statutes of the Commonwealth. Our mission is accomplished within the moral and legal standards of our community through a "partnership" of the community and the members of this department.

To this end, the Police Department:

Provides excellence in law enforcement to the university community, assisting each person served in finding solutions to their problems.
Provides follow-up investigation, including referral to community agencies and other law enforcement authorities in accordance with the needs of each person served.
Creates an environment of caring and support through education and accessibility. Individual training of all law enforcement personnel will be incorporated in daily roll call, and all professional development courses.
Is responsive to the needs of the university community, sensitive to issues, in modifying and expanding services to meet the needs of the community we serve.