The Pride of the Southland Band closed out the 2019 Tennessee Volunteers football regular season with one final march Saturday, […]

The men, women, and K9s of UTPD for the first time have taken on the “No Shave November” challenge to benefit Smokey’s Pantry, UT’s campus food pantry. To participate, each employee gave a $25 donation (some gave a little more!) with all proceeds benefiting Smokey’s Pantry. The department raised $1,161 for the pantry.

In the early 1970s, vintage vending machines and Coca-Cola machines on the UT campus were frequent targets of mischief at the hands of students. UTPD officers were frequently called upon to investigate these thefts.

Two UTPD officers graduated with top honors from the police academy last week.Officer Alexa Stephenson was elected by her peers as class president of the Blount County Sheriff’s Office Basic Law Enforcement Training Academy graduating class. Officer Ethan Long received the William D. Nuchols Award for Law Enforcement Excellence, one of the highest honors given in the graduating class.

There was a time when four UTPD officers partied like it was 1794. The University of Tennessee celebrated its 200th anniversary in 1994. The officers—at the request of the UT Board of Trustees—provided security at the board meeting in period costumes.

More than 20 employees of UT Public Safety have served across all branches of the US armed forces. Throughout the month of November—and in observance of Veterans Day—we will recognize those employees for their dedication to our country and UT.