All Safety Tips

Dinkytown Safety Guides—identified by Safety Guide shirts and baseball caps—can answer questions or help you find your way.

UMPD will never instruct people to wire money to clear a warrant. If you get one of these phone calls, hang up, it is a scam.

Keep your laptop, purse, wallet, briefcase, etc., attended or out of sight.

Be sure your phone's location services is activated, so police can attempt to recover it if stolen.

If walking alone, avoid distractions—phones, ear buds, etc.

Walk in groups and choose well lit routes.

Lock your living and work areas every time you leave.

Do not prop open entrances to buildings.

Note blue emergency phones across campus, which connect you with the UMPD at the touch of a button.

Don’t let strangers ‘tailgate’ behind you into your building.

Write down your bike’s serial number for matching in case of theft.