Organizational Structure

1.	The University of Alaska Police Department shall have units at the University of Alaska Anchorage and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
2.	Each department unit will be organized in accordance with the Operation Procedure Manual in effect for that unit on May 12, 1992, or as it may thereafter be duly amended.
3.	The director or chief of each department unit will report to the campus chancellor through the vice chancellor for administration or equivalent.
4.	Each chancellor shall designate an appropriate body to serve in an advisory capacity to the local department. This body may be an existing campus safety-related committee or a new body established specifically for this purpose. The advisory committee shall include representation from students, faculty and staff, as well as any additional representation the campus chancellor deems appropriate.
5.	Responsibility and authority for the systemwide coordination of the University of Alaska Police Department is vested in the vice president and general counsel.
6.	The president, in consultation with the chancellors, will determine whether commissioned officers carry firearms in the course of performing their duties as law enforcement officers on University property. The decision will be made following consultation with representatives of appropriate constituent bodies, the local department director or chief, the office of the general counsel, and such others as the president deems appropriate.

Operation Procedure Manuals

1.	Each local unit of the department will maintain and function in accordance with official operations procedures manuals.
2.	Variations between departmental units' operation procedure manuals may be necessary to allow for local organizational considerations, but in all other respects the operation procedure manuals will be the same for each unit.
3.	Existing operation procedure manuals may be amended and new operation procedure manuals may be adopted, subject to the approval of the campus chancellor and the vice president and general counsel of the University.

Mutual Aid Agreements

The Department is authorized to enter into written mutual aid agreements with other duly authorized law enforcement entities in the State of Alaska, provided such agreements are in the best interests of the University, and subject to the approval of the campus chancellor and the vice president and general counsel of the University.

Activities involving firearms, explosives and/or reloading activities may be carried on at the University only under supervised educational, recreational, professional or research programs where such activities are expressly authorized in advance by the appropriate chancellor or chancellor's designee.

Loaded or unloaded firearms may not be carried or stored on University property, in University buildings, or in vehicles on University property, without the prior written permission of the appropriate chancellor or chancellor's designee, except for the following:

1.	firearms being transported directly to or from an activity authorized under Section A. above;

firearms being transported directly to or from student or faculty and staff housing as authorized under Section C. below;

firearms carried by licensed security guards in uniform while performing services for the University;

firearms carried by commissioned law enforcement officers in relation to their law enforcement function; or

on undeveloped and uninhabited investment property.