UC Foundation Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Rick Dierenfeldt, a former police officer and criminal investigator, helped facilitate a crime scene investigator (CSI) forensic experience for a group of McCallie School students.
How to move up the law enforcement ladder with a criminal justice degree
Crime doesn’t pay. But a criminal justice degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga can. Just ask Lt. Adam Emery with the Chattanooga Police Department. Born and raised in Harrison, Tennessee, Emery received a criminal justice degree from UTC in 2003.
UTC professor, students helping Chattanooga Police decrease gun crimes
The Chattanooga Police Department began tracking gun crimes closely after violence skyrocketed in 2016. But a data-crunching partnership with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga created four years later shows marked decreases in gun-related crimes and could be preventing future crimes by taking guns off the street.
Any drug from anybody accepted in disposal box at police station
A disposal box at the UTC police station gives people a chance to anonymously throw away unused or out-of-date prescriptions for both humans and pets.
UTC enhances crime prevention on Campus
Stronger alliances and a devoted force against sexual assault are just some of the enhanced measures UTC is taking this year for preventing and responding to crime.
Chattanooga Police SWAT Team exercise conducted on campus
Long-vacant South Stadium building was bristling with life recently when 20 Chattanooga Police SWAT Team members, veterans and new hires, participated in a training exercise.