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Their patches on the shoulders and their badges and car doors will have the word "Police". Otherwise it might say "Guard" or "Security".


If you're talking about UT campuses (UT, UTA, UTD, etc.) the ones in blue shirts are peace officers and the white shirts are guards who work for the police department. State law allows educational institution "guards" to also carry batons, and their departments will issue the same pepper spray as the peace officers once they've completed the training.


While their department policies may differ, case law has been established that a university peace officer in Texas generally has primary jurisdiction county wide in any county where the system owns property. For UT system peace officers, this means they have almost statewide jurisdiction due to land donations that have been made in people's wills.