Harvard University Police Department Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and won by Harvard in January 2006. In January 2007 a bill, H. 3249, was introduced in the Massachusetts legislature that would provide greater access to records at all private police departments throughout the state, including campus and hospital police. An amended version passed the Senate and proceeded to a third reading in the House but was not enacted. Harvard University Police Department The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a private police agency of Harvard University, is a full-service police department responsible for the safety and security of students, faculty, staff, and visitors at the university’s
Academic regalia of Harvard University matching waistcoat. Members of the University Council, not doctors, or holding no degree from this University, are authorized to wear the doctor's gown with double crow's-foot of the color of the department to which they belong. All graduates' hoods are black lined with crimson silk, and are cut in the Edinburgh simple shape. Unlike most other United States universities, there is no velvet trim. Rank is indicated by the hood length: master's hoods are 42", doctors 48". Harvard bachelors do not wear hoods. The hood was actually the same hood of the Oxford MA that became fossilized in Harvard before