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Its 51 officers have police powers as deputy sheriffs in 52 towns and cities in Middlesex and Suffolk counties, giving the department a larger jurisdiction than most every municipal Massachusetts police department.
HUPD, though, is not a municipal police department. Officially, the University claims that its police department is a small part of Harvard, a large private institution.
Absent clear guidelines about the status of private college police agencies operating in municipal areas, Harvard administrators are often left to define the depth and breadth of the department's authority. They must judge whether HUPD should police private property such as the final clubs, student organizations like the Lampoon...
At the same time, administrators do not work alone. HUPD hashes out jurisdictional details with municipal police departments.
But while HUPD has many of the powers of a municipal police force, it doesn't play by the same rules as city departments.