Lincoln University Increases Public Safety Force

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Fourteen new public safety officers are sworn in during ceremonies at the Chester County Courthouse.

4 new public safety officers join Lincoln University’s Department of Public Safety staffFollowing the swearing in ceremonies,14 new public safety officers joined Lincoln University’s Department of Public Safety staff. Front row, from left: Larry Woods, director, Department of Public Safety; Capt. Ruth Waller, assistant director; Ofc. Richard Williams, Ofc. Stanley Postell, Ofc. Philoudeth Chantongthip, Sgt. Roger Henley, Ofc. Donna Tyre-Draper, Ofc. Joseph Santiago Ofc. Joseph Devlin, Lt. Bruce Mullen, training officer, administrative assistant and investigator Second row, from left: Ofc. Kevin Thompson, Ofc. David Coates, Ofc. Terrence Seligman, Ofc. Christopher Barrett, Ofc. Anthony Ortega, Sgt. James Godfrey and Capt. James Connor, assistant director. Not pictured: Sgt. Thomas Pearson, Sgt. Gregory Ellis, Ofc. Ryan Murtaugh, and Ofc. T. Ellis

Lincoln University, PA (www.lincoln.edu)—Fourteen Lincoln University Public Safety Officers were sworn in by the Chester County Court of Common Pleas on July 16 during ceremonies at the Chester County Courthouse in West Chester, Pa.

As members of the University’s Department of Public Safety, the new Public Safety Officers were granted special police powers for Lincoln University. The Department of Public Safety at Lincoln University is a professional public safety department whose purpose is to provide for the safety of the members of the University community and the security of all property on campus.

The Lincoln University Department of Public Safety is comprised of more than 30 law enforcement professionals who have been trained and certified as police officers under Pennsylvania Act 120 and certified to carry lethal weapons under Pennsylvania Act 235. Collectively, the department’s officers have more than 50 years of police and security training.

Lincoln University, the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU), educates and empowers students to lead their communities and change the world. Lincoln offers a rigorous liberal arts education to a diverse student body of approximately 2,200 men and women in more than 35 undergraduate and graduate programs.