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Here's a link to the official Rice University statement regarding the termination of Officer Sedmak: http://www.rice.edu/statement.html. Given the rather generic URL, it may be a temporary Webpage and could come down at any time.

In part, the university explains that they regularly work with adjacent PDs, including Houston, West University Place, Bellaire, and others. They say that the Rice University Police Department cross-trains with these external departments, and in the first five months of 2011 dispatched officers to 37 calls for help from external agencies.

They confirm the incident was "about three miles away" from the university, and go on to say that HPD did not request assistance from RUPD, that two HPD substations are closer to the Greyhound Station than is the university, that Officer Sedmak had both a portable radio and a squad-car mobile radio, and that he went against policy by self-dispatching and failing to notify the sergeant on duty until almost one hour after the fact. They also note that all RUPD radio communications are recorded.

Were I one of the HPD officers in the fight, I would greatly appreciate Officer Sedmak's assistance and would support him in every way possible in this situation. I admire his bravery and willingness to put himself into immediate harm's way to help a fellow officer. That said, given what we can know about the event, I think it's difficult to fault Excaliber's argument or the university's action.