Nighttime Student Escort Services (NEST) are available for all GS Students provided by the University Police Department.
What You Need To Know: Student escorts, or NEST is a program sponsored by the Office of Public Safety. Students are hired and trained by UPD to provide safety escorts for other students walking on campus alone at night.
- These escorts are provided from 7:00 pm to 12:00 am.
“You can call UPD and ask for an escort and one of our uniformed service officers will come and meet you where you are, and they’ll walk with you to wherever you’re going on campus,” according to Laura McCullough, Chief of University Police.
These trained students have radios to communicate with UPD officers and dispatch what is happening at all times. Other than that, these students don’t carry any weapons with them.
What Else: There’s no cost to students, no criteria to be granted an escort, and no limit to how many times students can utilize this service.
- “We don’t check boxes, we’ve got some people that take advantage of this every single night,” said Chief McCullogh.
“If we don’t have a service officer available, we can send a police officer, [but] that really depends on how busy our police officers are.” Depending on the amount of calls police officers receive, students may have to wait longer for safety escorts.
The number to request a NEST escort is:
(912) 478-5234 – Statesboro Campus
(912) 344-3333 – Armstrong Campus
