Riley says he also plans to create a high visibility corridor of police officers that extends from the river houses, through the Yard and up Garden Street to the Quad.

The HUPD bicycle patrol officers who have already begun to make their presence known on campus will also be a part of the visibility corridor, Riley says.

Riley instituted bike patrols last spring to increase the visibility of cops on campus.

The highest concentration of officers patrolling the campus will be between 4 p.m. and midnight, the time in which most calls come in.

Riley also plans to create maps of campus that plot all of the crimes that have occurred in the area. The HUPD is working in conjunction with the Cambridge Police Department, the city of Cambridge, the Graduate School of Design and Harvard Planning and Real Estate to create the map.

Riley hopes that the map "gives people a better understanding of where the hotspots are on campus."

According to Riley, the bike patrols will be visible during the day, while more cruisers will patrol at night.

As a result of the restructuring, there will be three HUPD cruisers available for response and more officers available for foot patrols than in the past.

Riley stresses that despite the changes, officers have not been taken away from patrolling other areas of the campus.

"[The HUPD] is trying to walk the fine line between providing safety and intruding into the lives of students," Riley says.

Internal Changes

Many of the changes Riley has made during the last nine months have been very visible.

The bike cops, new security phones and officers eating in dining halls are all changes that most students have noticed.

But some of Riley's most significant changes have taken place within the department itself.

When Riley first took the job, the HUPD had a tremendous amount of internal strife and division.