Police urge normal security measures following increase in national threat level

In the wake of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s raising the nation’s threat level, the UC Davis Police Department has announced that it has received no indications of threats toward the state of California’s infrastructure, including targets in and around Sacramento.

The department encourages the UC Davis Health System community to view the advisory at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Web site: http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/index.jsp.

According to the department:

“The United States Government is raising the nation’s threat level for the aviation sector to:

• Code Red or Severe for flights originating in the United Kingdom bound for the United States;

• Code Orange or High for all commercial aviation operating in or destined for the United States; and

• The rest of the country remains at Code Yellow.

“Currently, there is no indication of plotting within the United States. We believe the arrests of extremists engaged in a substantial plot to destroy multiple passenger aircraft flying from the United Kingdom to the United States have significantly disrupted the threat, but we cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted.”

The UC Davis Police Department will maintain its current state of readiness with regard to public safety and security. The department asks the health system community to assist the department by doing the following:

• Maintain vigilance over personal property. For example, continue to ensure that your buildings, offices, vehicles, etc., are secured and locked at all times;

• Continue to wear UC Davis Health System identification whenever you are on campus grounds; and

• Continue to report suspicious activity or persons seen on the campus grounds to the UC Davis Police Department.

If the UC Davis Police Department receives information of threats that includes the health system and requires an increase in our response, the department will make an announcement describing that response.