University of Florida Police Department

Total number of agency personnel: 135
Sworn: 88
Civilian: 47

Total population served: 80,000 (students, staff, faculty, and visitors)

Jurisdiction: University of Florida

• Coordinates among many campus entities involved with student and staff wellness 
• Features on-site support during incidents with Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) trained university officers and a clinician utilizing a co-responder model, where clinicians are employees of the police department in the Behavioral Services Division 
• Features active involvement on the multidisciplinary campus threat assessment team  
• Provides comprehensive training, including:
  • Intensive 40-hour mental health and CIT training for all sworn officers 
  • Annual QPR Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention (Suicide Prevention Resource Center training)
  • Seminars on multicultural and diversity issues
  • Online training for communicating with distressed individuals (At Risk-Kognito training)
  • Advanced training on threat assessment and intervention (Gavin DeBecker & Associates training)
• Responds to K-12 youth in crisis through university-age students with a K-12 Developmental Research School on campus

Website: University of Florida Police Department

Captain Kristy Sasser
1555 Museum Road
PO Box 112150
Gainesville, Florida 32611-4100
352-392-1111
ksasser@ufl.edu 

Meggen Tucker Sixbey, Ph.D., LMHC, LMFT
Assistant Director, Behavioral Services Division
University of Florida Police Department
1555 Museum Road
PO Box 112150
Gainesville, Florida   32611-4100
352-392-1111
sixbey@ufl.edu