UC San Diego Police Budget
The UC San Diego Police Department is comprised of sworn and non-sworn staff whose primary mission is to keep the campus and its community safe. The budget consists of core funds and funds generated from self-supporting activities.
The Police Department offers many programs and safety services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including but not limited to, communications, dispatch, 911, residential and non-residential security, safety escorts, community programs, and training.
The Police Department is budgeted for 93 full-time employees (FTE), which consists of 45 sworn (police officers) and 48 non-sworn employees. As of February 2021, the Police Department employed 75 UC San Diego students. Including student employees, 26.8% of all department employees are sworn officers. The overall department budget is $13.9M. The Core budget is $9.5M and primarily supports operations. The remaining $4.4M consists of programs that are charged on a for-fee-service. Roughly 90% of the department budget funds compensation and 10% supports communications equipment, vehicles, and other supplies. (Note: Numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand.)
FY 2018/19 |
FY 2019/20 |
FY 2020/21 |
|
Perm budget per ledgers1 |
$8,205,000 |
$8,247,000 |
$7,847,000 |
Actual |
Actual |
Budget |
|
CORE |
FY 2018/19 |
FY 2019/20 |
FY 2020/21 |
Police2 |
$8,136,000 |
$8,247,000 |
$8,347,000 |
Community Service Officer Program3 |
$886,000 |
$476,000 |
$637,000 |
Physical Security4 |
$1,464,000 |
$1,251,000 |
$476,000 |
Total Core |
$10,485,000 |
$9,973,000 |
$9,459,000 |
|
|
|
|
Self-Supporting (Recharge Activities)8 |
|
|
|
Police5 |
$1,281,000 |
$930,000 |
$944,000 |
Residential Security Officer Program6 |
$2,009,000 |
$2,189,000 |
$2,859,000 |
Community Service Officer Program7 |
$1,033,000 |
$898,000 |
$600,000 |
Total Self Supporting (Recharge Activities) |
$4,324,000 |
$4,018,000 |
$4,402,000 |
|
|
|
|
Work Study (under Contract & Grants) |
$66,000 |
$53,000 |
$60,000 |
|
|
|
|
Total |
$14,875,000 |
$14,044,000 |
$13,921,000 |
Notes
- Permanent Core budget
- Police Core Budget (includes sworn, dispatch, administrative, records); FY20 decrease due to administrative leave savings, freeze in hiring/expenditure (COVID-19), and vacancies
- Community Service Officer Program: CSOs are student employees. The core program mission is providing safety escorts, they also provide security functions for various campus departments on a recharge basis (see 7 below)
- Campus Physical Security Program: The program is designed to protect facilities, equipment, people, and property from harm or damage through physical security efforts, e.g., building access control systems, alarm monitoring (fire/intrusion/duress/video surveillance)
- 4 Police Officer FTE, 2 Bike Enforcement Officer FTE (non-sworn), police services for events, e.g., Sun God Festival, Commencement
- Residential Security Officer Program funded by Housing*Dining*Hospitality: RSOs patrol housing areas at night and respond to service calls in residential areas. Funded for 24 RSO FTE, 2 Sergeant FTE, 4 Lieutenant FTE
- Community Service Officer Program: CSOs are student employees. The core mission of the program is providing safety escorts; they also provide security functions for various campus departments, e.g., library study details, security patrols at SIO, construction traffic control
- Self-supporting/recharge programs are charged on a for-fee-service structure.
Questions?
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