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The Campaign
OPERATION THEFT AWARENESS is an educational campaign, launched in collaboration with the Undergraduate Assembly (UA), Graduate and Student Professional Assembly (GAPSA), United Minorities Council (UMC) and the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT), to further promote the idea that "Safety & Security is a Shared Responsibility."
The goal is to educate all members of the Penn community and visitors to our University City retail stores and restaurants about the dangers of leaving personal items unattended or improperly secured. With the overall success of the campaign's launch in January of 2008, Operation Theft Awareness has now become an on going educational component to the Division's public safety program.
Theft: More Than Just Personal PropertySerious consequences are associated with theft of personal items. Besides the loss of personal property, theft is also inconvenient and may result in the loss of things that are of substantial emotional and professional significance.
Unattended and improperly secured items put you at greater risk of theft, which can result in:
- Identify theft
- Loss of irreplaceable photos
- Loss of all of your phone contact numbers
- Loss of important work, such as a thesis or research analysis
You can be a part of the solution!
Embrace the idea that ‘Safety & Security is a Shared Responsibility’ and take the following simple, yet important, steps to keep your personal items safe:
- Lock your doors
- Keep your laptop with you at all times
- Secure your bike with a U-Lock
- Remove personal items from vehicles that are in plain view
- Report Suspicious Activity
Please report any suspicious activity to Penn Police by calling
215-573-3333 or 511 from any campus phone
Before you walk away from your property…Stop, Think & Secure
Get More Involved!
YOU are our best communication tool! If you are a building administrator, business owner, University affiliate, etc., and would like to get more involved, please contact Jared Hupp at the Division of Public Safety to receive promotional information – jhupp(at)publicsafety.upenn.edu. Please be sure to include your name, establishment name, and contact information.
Graphic media is also available for you to distribute! The link below contains a media kit that holds web graphics, media for distribution through newsletters and list-serves and facts and information about the campaign to help you disseminate information to your peers.
 | To download the media kit, click on the Media Kit graphic to the left and save the file to your computer or thumb-drive. The file has been compressed into a .zip file. You will need to have software such as Winzip or Stuffit Expander to open the Media Kit.The software is free. Please ask your IT administrator for help if you are downloading to an office computer. |
The Division of Public Safety would like to give special thanks to the following groups for their invaluable participation in Operation Theft Awareness.
MERT :: UA :: GAPSA :: UMC :: Business Services
And all of our Partners in Safety who have agreed to display Operation Theft Awareness collateral in their establishments
