Harvard University Police Department

• Criminal Investigation Division • Dignitary Protection Unit • Patrol Division ==Authority ==

All sworn members of the Harvard University Police Department are sworn as special state police officers under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 22C Section 63. This gives them full powers of arrest in and upon all property owned or controlled by Harvard University. Additionally, all officers hold commissions as deputy sheriffs for Middlesex County and Suffolk County, which gives them powers of arrest throughout Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston, where Harvard has facilities. == Police logs controversy ==

HUPD has been the target of requests for greater transparency in the records it keeps or publishes about its officers’ actions. In 2003, The Harvard Crimson, the undergraduate student newspaper, filed suit against HUPD in Massachusetts Superior Court. In January 2006, the case, The Harvard Crimson v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al, which was transferred to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, was won by the university. ==References==