Under the direction of Chief Wes Hardin, the Georgia College Police Department is a full-service law enforcement agency dedicated to serving the university community, including students, faculty, staff, and residents within its jurisdiction, which includes all campus-owned or leased property and 500 yards around such property. Personnel from the department are on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
, 365 days a year, striving to make the campus and its surrounding environs as safe as possible. Since 1979, the Georgia College Police Department has been a state-certified law enforcement agency. All sworn officers receive over 400 hours of initial training at one of several regional law enforcement training centers, and they are vested with the same powers of arrest as any other peace officer in the state. In addition, officers receive a minimum of 20 hours of training per year. The department provides a wide variety of services, ranging from motorist assistance to answering routine and emergency calls for service, to major case investigation and community-oriented programming. Regardless of what their assigned duties might be, the department’s personnel are dedicated to the delivery of proactive law enforcement services positively and professionally. GCSU DPS welcomes the community to its page. Community-contributed comments on the Page are the opinion of the specific author and do not represent GCSU DPS. GCSU DPS abides by Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and asks its Facebook Followers to do the same. In particular, please do not "post unauthorized commercial solicitations (such as spam)"; "bully, intimidate, or harass any user"; "post content that is hateful, threatening, profane, pornographic, or that contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence"; or "do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory" on the GCSU DPS page. GCSU DPS reserves the right, but is not obligated, to remove comments that contain commercial solicitations; are factually erroneous/libelous; are wildly off-topic; that cannot be translated into English by Google Translate or other free online translation software; or that otherwise violate Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Facebook encourages all users to utilize the "Report" links when they find abusive content. GCSU DPS thanks you in advance for visiting the department’s page, and for your help in creating a safe and vibrant online community here.
