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The Florida International University Police Department
Florida International University urges it’s University community to use The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (ASR) as a guide for safe practices on and off campus. This report contains information and crime statistics for 2017, 2018, and 2019 calendar years for crimes that occurred: • on campus;
• in certain off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by FIU; and
• on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible to the campus.
It also contains information regarding campus security and personal safety topics such as crime prevention, fire safety, University police law enforcement authority, crime reporting policies, disciplinary procedures and other information related to safety and security on campus.
This information is provided by the University Police Department and in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, 1990.
Campus Law Enforcement Policies
The Florida International University Police Department (FIUPD) is located in the PG5 Market Station at Modesto A. Maidique Campus (MMC) and at the SO II building on Biscayne Bay Campus (BBC). The FIUPD provides a full range of police services to the community 24 hours a day, seven days a week at both campuses. All University police officers are certified by the State of Florida and have complete police authority to apprehend and arrest anyone involved in illegal acts on FIU campuses and educational sites as well as areas immediately adjacent to the campuses. If offenses involving University regulations and policies are committed by a University student, the FIUPD also refers the individual for disciplinary action with the Office of Student Conduct and Academic Integrity.
Major offenses involving death on campus are reported to local police, and joint investigative efforts with investigators from the FIUPD and the local police are deployed to solve these serious crimes. The prosecution of all criminal offenses, both felony and misdemeanor, are conducted by the
