BPD

Berkeley’s Police Accountability Board, or PAB, met Wednesday evening to discuss the department’s staff shortage, the recent rise in sexual assault reports and the usage of audited body working cameras, or BWCs, on Berkeley police. 

At 9:30 p.m. Saturday, four UC Berkeley students were attacked by two suspects in a Rav 4 vehicle while returning to Clark Kerr Campus, near the 2900 block of Derby Street, according to a UC WarnMe sent Sunday morning.

Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART, announced it is “more than doubling” its police presence on trains in order to address rider safety concerns beginning March 20, according to a press release from BART on Friday. 

On Feb. 15, BPD arrested a 20-year-old UC Berkeley student in connection with a rape inside of a sorority house, according to BPD public information officer, Byron White.

On Monday, Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, officers arrested four suspects connected to a “late-night armed home style robbery,” according to BPD spokesperson Byron White. 

Berkeley’s Police Accountability Board, or PAB, elected its chairperson and vice-chairperson and heard reports regarding hiring struggles for staff dispatchers, early warning system updates and a response to Tyre Nichols' death at the hands of Memphis police at its regular meeting Tuesday.

An "unidentified suspect" allegedly attempted to pull a female victim toward him to take to his car near Hearst and Euclid Avenues at 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to a UC Berkeley WarnMe alert.

A sexual battery occurred in a UC Berkeley residence hall Wednesday at approximately 8:45 p.m.

The Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, issued an updated Nixle alert that 64-year-old Lisa Rogers has been found after an earlier alert that she was missing Monday afternoon.

Three suspects were arrested and charged in connection to an early morning Southside shooting on Oct. 8 that left one dead and three injured, according to a Nixle alert from the Berkeley Police Department.