The Division of Public Safety, working with the Undergraduate Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, is offering a free Public Safety Walk-Back Program. During Reading Days and Final Exams, from Tuesday, December 13, through Thursday, December 22, an Allied Universal Security Officer will be at the Button in front of Van Pelt Library on Woodland Walk from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. to offer walking escorts.

Additionally, every half-hour an officer will meet with students at the security desk in the main entrance of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library to offer walking escorts.

The Division of Public Safety is providing this service in addition to its normal Walking Escort Program. Uniformed Allied Universal Security Officers provide escorts to campus locations, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, between 30th to 43rd Streets and Market Street to Baltimore Avenue. Escorts will accompany you from one location to another, to your parked vehicle, to a Penn Transit Stop or to an on-campus SEPTA transit stop. The officer will wait with you at your transit stop until you are safely on the vehicle.

Escorts are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To request a Walking Escort, call (215) 898-9255 (898-WALK).

Escorts are also available in an expanded area, from 10 a.m. until 3 a.m., between 43rd & 50th and Spring Garden Street & Woodland Avenue via the University’s partnership with the University District Ambassador Program.