{"id":7788,"date":"2025-04-04T16:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=7788"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:42:07","slug":"day-in-the-life-of-a-troy-university-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/04\/04\/day-in-the-life-of-a-troy-university-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Trojan Spotlight: TUPD works to keep campus safe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 In a world without superheroes it becomes a team effort to make everyone&#8217;s day as smooth as possible. A big part of TROY&#8217;s team is its campus police department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You have to be on your toes sometimes,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/student-resources\/campus-safety\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troy University Police Department<\/a> (TUPD) officer Andrew Garrett. &#8220;Most of the time we&#8217;re riding around checking buildings, interacting with students and faculty members, unlocking cars and stuff like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, though, urgency is needed in order to keep TROY faculty, staff, and students safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Campus police had come over and told us to like move and go some place safer,&#8221; said students Ashton Gilbert. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t even know what was going on but all we saw was campus police getting there as quickly as they could.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/04\/01\/mayor-jason-reeves-and-coach-chuck-dunn-share-life-advice-guidance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TROJAN SPOTLIGHT: Mayor Jason Reeves and Coach Chuck Dunn share life advice, guidance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On TROY&#8217;s campus, help is just a phone call away, for problems both big and small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I got locked out of my dorm and I needed someone to call at the time and the police department was right there when I needed them,&#8221; said student Kacee Holmes. &#8220;They helped lug all my stuff to my dorm, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TUPD officers are under the command of Police Chief George Beaudry, who came to Troy in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 In a world without superheroes it becomes a team effort to make everyone&#8217;s day as smooth as possible. A big part of TROY&#8217;s team is its campus police department. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to be on your toes sometimes,&#8221; said Troy University Police Department (TUPD) officer Andrew Garrett. &#8220;Most of the time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/04\/04\/day-in-the-life-of-a-troy-university-police-officer\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":7794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[270,2173,2174,1142,1090],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-7788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-campus-safety","tag-chief-george-beaudry-troy","tag-trojan-spotlight","tag-troy-university-police-department","tag-tupd","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7795,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788\/revisions\/7795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7788"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=7788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}