Director of the Department of Public Safety William Tucker retired effective Monday after fifteen years at Georgetown. Tucker’s retirement was announced to the University community last Friday via a broadcast e-mail sent by Senior Vice President Spiros Dimolitsas.
On Tuesday, Associate Director of Public Safety Darryl Harrison became Acting Director of Public Safety. Harrison has been Associate Director of Public Safety at Georgetown for three-and-a-half years.
No one at DPS was willing to comment on the change.
Dimolitsas said that during Tucker’s years at the University, DPS has been involved in many new programs, such as organizing Saferides, installing closed circuit television cameras on campus, computerizing crime data and establishing a crime prevention program.
Under Tucker, the department also established a probationary review board to evaluate the performance of its officers.
“Chief Tucker has taken DPS from a security guard team to a nationally accredited campus police force (as of 1994) now responsible for campus safety at a very critical time in our history,” Dimolitsas said in an e-mail to the Georgetown community.
“I thank Chief Tucker for his more than 15 years of service and wish him the very best in his retirement,” University President John J. DeGioia said.
