University Police

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Can University Police hand out tickets on city streets? I didn’t really think they could pull you over on city streets until last night, at about 4AM I got pulled over by one of those rent-a-cop’s who thought they were a real cop or something.

I was heading down sweethome to drop my buddy off, passed UB and saw a University Police cruiser, and didn’t think much of it. Next thing I know as I turn down Chestnut Ridge the fucker puts her lights on and pulls me over for my tints. She asked me the routine “where are you coming from?” and “have you had anything to drink?” questions, and then busts out “have you been smoking any illegal drugs?” I replied with no and she asked me to take off my glasses and shined her flashlight into my eyes. Then she made some comments on my spider-man pajama pants. What do you know, Ms. Detective failed to notice that my inspection was WAY overdue.

So I got out of the ticket because my buddy gave her some card with a cops name on it, but my question is, if I didn’t have this card, could she actually write me a real ticket?

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It depends. Some campus police are full policemen, not just rent-a-cops. I think Buff State are Buffalo Police IIRC but I am not sure about UB.

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actually, most university police officers have gone through state trooper training, so yes…they can pull you over outside of campus if your on certain streets such as the ones connecting the campuses and surrounding things like UB’s medical bookstore…anything owned/opperated by the school

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Some campus police can go outside of campus grounds to pull you over and ticket you is what I was getting at…

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campus cops are real cops. plain and simple.

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Yes but the point is, if you get a ticket from campus police it only holds weight if you are enrolled in school and doesn’t translate to your NYS driving record. If you went to Buff state, however, those kinds of tickets DID go on your NYS driving record as the campus police could follow you outside of school grounds and give you the appropriate ticket. That at least was the way it was when I was at Fredonia state, the campus cops had now power past the school borders.

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Yeah even when I still lived there, they are real cops. I know they had gone through training so they can issue a ticket just as easily as APD could.

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if a UB cop is getting gas and sees someone run a red light off campus, they can ticket them regardless of if they are students or not.

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They real po-po and they can get cha. Used to know quite a few UB cops, and this was verified

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so true, so dont go thinking that your not going to get a real ticket from campus cops.

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Damn… I definately did not know that.

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I got a ticket yrs ago at Buff State for blowing a stop sign by a campus cop. I thought it would be a joke, and I would just get out of it. It was a real ticket and I could not get out of it because it was through buffalo court where they dont plea down. On top of it my neighbor at the time was a buffalo cop and could not get me out of it because it was given by university police and not BPD.

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As a UB alum, I feel qualified to answer this question:

UB Officers are State troopers

So yes, they can ticket you outside of campus regardless if you are a student or not

I believe a member of this board works for UB Campus Safety and has stated this in the past before

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Also as a UB alumni, i feel qualfied to tell you that being UB alumni does not qualify you to point out your UB alumni status, nor does it qualify you to be any sort of expert on this, or any, situation.

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I think it does and I probably know more of the University than you anyway

edit: and I am merely pointing out my credentials

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Yeap real cops same with NFTA cops

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eh, i probably know more than you anyway.

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As far as I know they are treated like State Police.

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Staffing Profile
The Department of University Police Officers are highly trained professional Police Officers. The Department of University Police personnel have the full state authority to enforce and investigate all laws and regulations.

http://www.public-safety.buffalo.edu/aboutus.shtml

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yeah they do…they went thru the state academy…there is somebody in my office at the base who is a full time police officer at UB…