If you haven’t already, please save 215.895.2222 in your contacts as the main emergency number for Drexel Public Safety, including Drexel Police and Fire & Emergency Services. (You can also call 911 in any emergency.) If you are on the University City Campus, you can call 215.895.2222 to request a walking escort (more on that later). Additional public safety-related numbers, including security offices for Drexel’s other campus locations, are provided on the DPS website; bookmark that page or add any relevant numbers to your address book today!
To optimize your communication to and from DPS, please also take the following actions, which you can do right now on your phone:
- Download the Drexel Guardian app via iOS or Google Play. In the event of an emergency, Drexel Guardian allows the DPS Communications Center to immediately access important information about you.
- Confirm or update your mobile phone number via DrexelOne to ensure you receive emergency text-message notifications from the DrexelALERT system.
DPS also recommends saving these numbers to help you navigate other issues that may arise:
- Real Estate and Facilities, 215.895.1700 (during business hours): Contact this department for all concerns or questions about maintenance emergencies, work orders, campus bus service, and on-campus construction. For after-hours maintenance emergencies, call Public Safety at 215.895.2222. For general maintenance and non-emergency requests, submit an online work request.
- Environmental Health and Radiation Safety, 215.895.5919
- Counseling Center:
- Main contact during regular business hours: 895.1415
- After-hours and weekend crisis/emergency support: 416.3337
- Other crisis support numbers can be found on the Counseling and Health website.
- Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, 988: If you’re struggling, help is a phone call away.
- Homeless Outreach Hotline, 232.1984 or 1.877.222.1984: If you see someone in Philadelphia experiencing homelessness who needs help, you can call one of these numbers provided by Project HOME’s Outreach Coordination Center.
