Walk Back Program – Reading Days and Finals
Walk-Back Program
The Division of Public Safety offers the Public Safety Walk-Back Program during reading days and final exams from December 10 to December 19.
An Allied Universal public safety officer will be posted at the “Button” on Woodland Walk from 10 p.m. until 3 a.m.
Approximately every half hour, the officer will enter Van Pelt-Dietrich Library to offer walking escorts to anyone in the building. The officer will then perform the escort and return to repeat the process.
The Division of Public Safety provides this service in addition to its normal walking escort programs. Uniformed Allied Universal public safety officers provide walking escorts to all locations within the Penn patrol zone. Officers are dispatched by radio and will accompany you from one location to another, such as to your parked vehicle, to a Penn Transit Stop, or to an on-campus SEPTA regional transit stop. Escorts are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from 30th to 43rd Streets and from Market Street to Baltimore Avenue.
Escorts also extend west to 50th Street, and north/south from Spring Garden Street to Woodland Avenue, between 10 a.m. and midnight via Penn’s partnership with the University District Ambassador Program.
To request a Walking Escort, ask any public safety officer on patrol or inside a building or call (215) 898-9255 (898-WALK) or 511 from a campus phone. All Allied Universal public safety officers, though unarmed, maintain direct radio communications with our PennComm emergency dispatching center, and supplement the University of Pennsylvania Police Department, through additional patrols and walking escorts.