{"id":415533,"date":"2026-08-24T18:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415533\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:46:36","slug":"texas-tech-police-highlight-safety-technology-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415533\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech police highlight safety technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Traffic increased in Lubbock and Levelland Monday as Texas Tech University, Lubbock Christian University and South Plains College began their fall semester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Drivers were advised to watch for increased traffic on 19th Street and Highway 114 heading toward Levelland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas Tech students are settling back into campus life this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Caitlyn Jeffries, with the Texas Tech Police Department, reminded students about technology available in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Blue light emergency phones are located across campus. Students can walk up, press the button and be immediately connected with dispatch and a GPS locator that shows their location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jeffries said the department also wants to build stronger connections with students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re human just like everyone else, we\u2019re here for their safety, to protect them. And to have someone to go to if if they are concerned or scared,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jeffries said Texas Tech police have jurisdiction in any county in which the university owns property, meaning officers can help students even if they are off campus.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Traffic increased in Lubbock and Levelland Monday as Texas Tech University, Lubbock Christian University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[144731,144732,168,170,169,1769,35981,144733,144730],"class_list":["post-415533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-fdoc","tag-fist-day-of-class","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-police","tag-traffic-increase","tag-ttupd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}