UCLA creates campus safety role amid condemnation of response to mob attack

University and police denounced as masked group marched on campus and attacked pro-Palestinian demonstrators last week

The University of California, Los Angeles, said that it would create a new office dedicated to campus safety following mounting criticism of authorities' slow response to a brutal attack on pro-Palestinian protesters by a mob of instigators".

The school's chancellor, Gene Block, said on Sunday that urgent changes were needed to better protect our community moving forward" and announced that a new office of campus safety would oversee the university police department and the UCLA office of emergency management, effective immediately".