UPRRP
Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios / Protocolo de Seguridad del Recinto de Río Piedras
The flagship campus of the University of Puerto Rico issues bilingual campus alerts — 'Notificación de Seguridad' and 'Alerta de Seguridad' — through its División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos (DSMR), publishing them on the campus website and documenting its Clery procedures in the Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios.
Read the official policyInstitution
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras
Territory · PR
~11,312 studentsNotificación / Alerta de Seguridad (División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos)
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Recurring safety recommendation (Spanish, verbatim)verbatim
Manténgase alerta en todo momento y observe quién está a su alrededor.
- — English translation: 'Stay alert at all times and observe who is around you.' This recommendation appears verbatim across multiple DSMR security alerts (e.g., 27 March 2025, 12 May 2025), confirming it as standardized boilerplate.
Bilingual alert product names (Spanish, verbatim)verbatim
Notificación de Seguridad / Alerta de Seguridad
- — English translation: 'Security Notification / Security Alert.' These are the two standardized titles the DSMR uses for its published campus alerts.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- The DSMR issues 'Notificación de Seguridad' / 'Alerta de Seguridad' web alerts to inform the university community about campus incidents — including missing persons, indecent exposure, scams, robberies, and similar security concerns — pairing an incident description with safety recommendations and reporting instructions. (As a Clery-covered institution UPRRP is also bound by the federal timely-warning and emergency-notification standards; exact criteria language not retrievable in this review.)
- Who decides
- The División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos (DSMR), attached to the Office of the Rector and operating 24/7, issues the campus security notifications/alerts. Specific named decision-authority language was not confirmed verbatim in the sources reviewed.
- Timeliness standard
- In emergencies the campus communicates immediately with the community using bulk email, electronic forms, Google applications, web pages, megaphones, door-to-door visits, and group text messages; the 91 emergency phones connect directly to the DSMR station, which immediately activates security protocols. Exact Clery 'timely'/'immediate' policy wording not retrievable in this review.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- The DSMR publishes an Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report) in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act; alerts use the bilingual 'Notificación/Alerta de Seguridad' framing.
- Testing cadence
- Not specified in the sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- Alerts are issued primarily in Spanish (the working language of the campus), with English material on the dedicated English security pages; not all alert types are sent to every community member, consistent with the Clery distinction between campus-wide warnings and targeted notifications.
ChannelsEmailSmsWebsitePa SystemPhone Call
Analysis
Reading the policy
The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPRRP) is the system's flagship and the largest institution in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Campus safety is run by the División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos (DSMR) — the Security and Risk Management Division — which is attached to the Office of the Rector and operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The DSMR's functions include protecting the university community from risks to their safety and integrity, protecting public and private property on campus, maintaining order, and overseeing the normal functioning of university activities.
UPRRP's public-facing alert products are bilingual but primarily Spanish, published as web posts titled 'Notificación de Seguridad' (Security Notification) and 'Alerta de Seguridad' (Security Alert). These cover a range of incidents — missing persons, indecent exposure, scams, robberies, and other security concerns — and each typically combines a description of the incident with safety recommendations and instructions on how to report crimes. A recurring verbatim recommendation across these alerts urges the community to 'Manténgase alerta en todo momento y observe quién está a su alrededor' (Stay alert at all times and observe who is around you). According to the DSMR, in emergencies the campus communicates immediately using bulk-email tools, electronic forms, Google applications, web pages, megaphones, door-to-door visits, and group text messages — a deliberately redundant mix suited to a large urban campus.
The campus documents its Clery Act compliance in the Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios (Annual Security and Fire Safety Report), published by the DSMR in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, with printed copies available from the DSMR office. The campus also maintains a network of 91 emergency telephones — 62 inside buildings (marked red) and 29 outdoor blue-light poles — that connect directly to the DSMR station, which immediately activates security protocols on each call.
UPRRP's alerting reflects its bilingual, territorial context: official notifications are issued first in Spanish, which is the working language of the campus, with English material provided through the campus's English-language security pages. The exact verbatim policy text from the Spanish-language Annual Report (the formal decision-authority and timeliness language) could not be retrieved in this review because the uprrp.edu host blocked automated fetching of the PDF; those fields are therefore reconstructed from the publicly indexed DSMR pages and flagged. In an emergency the community is directed to contact the DSMR at (787) 764-0000, extensions 83131 and 83535.
Takeaways
Key findings
UPRRP is the flagship campus of the University of Puerto Rico and the largest institution in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico (~11,300 students).
Campus alerts are issued by the División de Seguridad y Manejo de Riesgos (DSMR), attached to the Office of the Rector, operating 24/7.
Public alerts are bilingual but primarily Spanish, titled 'Notificación de Seguridad' and 'Alerta de Seguridad', and published on the campus website.
Emergency communication uses a redundant mix: bulk email, electronic forms, Google apps, web pages, megaphones, door-to-door, group texts, and 91 emergency phones (red indoor / blue-light outdoor) wired to the DSMR.
Clery procedures are documented in the Spanish-language Informe Anual de Seguridad e Incendios; exact decision-authority/timeliness wording was not retrievable (uprrp.edu blocked automated fetching), so those fields are reconstructed and flagged.
Policy, meet practice
When this system actually fired
2 documented times UPRRP’s alert system was used, from the case archive.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- Clery ASR
- Official
- Official
- Official
- Clery ASR
Tags
policyemergency-notificationtimely-warningterritorypuerto-ricospanish-languageclery-asr
Added 2026-06-21Updated 2026-06-21Via ingestion