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The DePaul University Public Safety Department provides an escort service for students, staff and faculty whose circumstances require them to travel alone on campus, in isolated areas after dark, during times of low activity on campus or whenever there is concern for one's own personal safety. Because of the various patrol functions required of the officer, there may sometimes be a short waiting period.

Escort Policy – Lincoln Park Campus
The purpose of the public safety escort is to provide a safe means of transportation for the DePaul Community around the LPC campus during evening hours. This may be done by foot or by car within campus boundaries. The boundaries are as follows: Fullerton Avenue to the north including Seton and Lot L, Webster Avenue to the south including Theatre School and Annex, Racine Avenue to the west, and Halsted to the east.

Evening escorts are available between the hours of 6:00pm until 6:00am everyday.
Escorts are limited to only three riders at a time. After placing a call for an escort proceed to the pickup location.
Escorts are done between campus boundaries only. There will be no off campus escorts.
Escorts are done between one campus building to another or from buildings to parking lots.
Escorts are not to be utilized for the purpose of moving students' possessions.
All escorts should be done on a timely basis. There will be times when a student will be informed that officers are in the process of their duties and students may have to wait for their escort.

At the Lincoln Park campus, an escort may be obtained by calling ext.57777 on university house telephones and by providing the dispatcher with your name, your current location and your destination. You will then be advised of the length of the wait, if any, for your escort.

Hospital Transports
At the Chicago campuses public safety supervisors and officers will assist in the transportation of all seriously injured or suddenly ill students and staff members to the nearest hospital utilizing the following :

Paramedics
Private ambulance
Public Safety vehicle
Taxi

When an emergency happens:

Telephone DePaul Public Safety (773-325-7777 Lincoln Park Campus; ext. 312-362-8400 Loop Campus) on a house telephone.
Describe campus and exact building location.
Give an accurate description of the event.
Have someone stay with the patient until help arrives.
Don't move the patient unless their life is in danger in the existing location.
Give accurate direction to help emergency personnel locate the patient.
Don't hang up until told to do so.
Meet the emergency personnel to guide them to the patient.
DePaul students are reminded to carry university identification at all times.