Public Safety Building

Pitt’s new $6 million Public Safety Building, dedicated in April 2007, represents part of the University’s continuing commitment to the Oakland neighborhood and the City of Pittsburgh.

Located at 3412 Forbes Avenue, at the gateway to the campus from Downtown Pittsburgh, the new building provides the University of Pittsburgh Police Department for the first time with a centralized headquarters in a highly visible and accessible location.

The lobby, which includes an automatic teller machine, is staffed 24 hours a day for the convenience of University students, faculty, staff and visitors to the community who require police assistance or information.

A state-of-the-art communications center connects the University’s more than 70 commissioned law-enforcement officers with each other and with city, county, and state public safety agencies, and allows Pitt personnel to monitor conditions throughout the 132-acre campus and the greater Oakland community—about 40 percent of the calls handled by University police involve non-Pitt personnel. A backup emergency power supply keeps the communications center operational in case severe weather or other emergencies disrupt power.

The Public Safety Building is also home to the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety, which ensures that research activities comply with local, state, and federal regulations, and which provides laboratory and fire safety training for the Oakland campus and Pitt’s four regional campuses.