Overseas Travel

The Washington University Police Department has a service available for members of the campus community looking for safety advisories as they plan overseas trips.

WUPD is a subscriber to the US State Department’s Electronic Data Base (EDB). The EDB provides current and authoritative information about overseas security conditions. Among the categories of information available from the Electronic Data Base are:

  • Department of State overseas travel advisories, listed by country
  • Reports on security and crime incidents, listed by country
  • Updates on new or unusual situations overseas
  • Addresses and telephone numbers of U.S. diplomatic and consular posts  overseas
  • Police emergency telephone numbers, listed by country
  • General crime information on foreign cities and countries.

Members of the campus community, who would like to request information about a locality prior to traveling, can contact Wendy Oloteo of the Police Department at 935-7698 or email to Wendy_Oloteo@wustl.edu.

Information about traveling abroad can be found at www.ds-osac.org/