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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Allan Guyet, Vanderbilt University’s chief of police for the past eight years, will retire at the end of the year.
Guyet joined Vanderbilt after serving as chief of police at Yale University and managing director of public safety at Princeton University. He has more than 40 years of law enforcement experience, which he began as a police officer in Newark, N.J.
“This December will mark my 45th year in law enforcement and during that time I have had many interesting and challenging jobs and assignments, but Vanderbilt has been the highlight of my career,” Guyet said.
“Vanderbilt has benefited from his leadership, compassionate concern for our community and commitment to being a full partner in the life of our university,” said Lauren J. Brisky, vice chancellor for administration and chief financial officer. “He has instinctively understood and appreciated the type of police department needed on an urban campus that serves as home to undergraduate students and to an academic medical center.
“We will miss him; however, he will leave a police department that is well poised to face future challenges and opportunities,” Brisky said, adding the university will determine over the next few months “how best to find a highly qualified person to become Vanderbilt’s next chief of police.”
During his tenure as police chief, which will end Dec. 31, 2006, Guyet has helped establish strong working relationships with the city of Nashville and the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. Vanderbilt’s commissioned police officers are empowered to make arrests as “Special Police Officers,” through the authority of the chief of police of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.
Vanderbilt officers with Special Police Commissions have the same authority as that of a municipal law enforcement officer while on property owned by Vanderbilt, on adjacent public streets and sidewalks, and nearby neighborhoods.
The Vanderbilt Police Department comes under the charge of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for the Division of Administration. As one of Tennessee’s larger law enforcement agencies, the department provides comprehensive law enforcement and security services to all components of Vanderbilt including the academic campus, medical center and a variety of university-owned facilities throughout the Davidson County area. The department includes 81 commissioned officers and 33 civilian employees.
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