Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, OUSS is always on hand to provide support and assistance to staff, students and visitors. 

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Their services include:

• safety and security advice

• care and welfare support for victims

• event security management

• incident response, management and resolution

• alarm and CCTV monitoring

• security patrols

• security training

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Call +44(0)1865 2 72944

Email ouss.administration@admin.ox.ac.uk. 

Personal safety app.

Uses police report data (updated weekly) to create a map of repeated local crime hotspots and help you plan safer routes.

Allows you and your trusted contacts to look out for each other by following each other's locations on trips.

Personal safety app.

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A handsfree voice-activated safety app for women. Your scream or keyword triggers the app and sends an automated message with your location to your chosen emergency contacts.

Personal safety app.

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When walking at night, keep the app open and push the red panic button if you find yourself in a dangerous situation. The app will immediately send an SMS and an e-mail containing your GPS coordinates in a Google Maps link to your chosen emergency contacts.

Feeling uncomfortable walking home alone? Call up Strut Safe and a volunteer will stay on the phone with you until you feel safe. Available across the UK.

Call 0333 335 0026

Our hours are:

Fridays + Saturdays: 19:00 - 03:00

Sundays: 19:00 - 01:00​

An Oxford-based, women-focused private taxi company focused on providing a safe nighttime service for passengers. Most of their drivers are female.

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Call 01865 776680

Any Oxford University Student can go to the nearest participating College Lodge and ask for help, even if they're from a different college. This can help provide an escape from street harassment. A student can ask for directions or request the Porter to call up their College and get help from a Welfare Dean or Junior Welfare Dean. The Porter can also call a taxi for you but you will be billed for the fare.

The network brings together partners and organisations in the night-time economy, including the police, CCTV operators, Street Pastors, night bus drivers, taxi drivers, licensed premises, door supervisors and university security services.

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Oxford Safe Places are locations where anyone can come in and get support in the evening.

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Currently, these include:

• Oxford City Buses (speak to the driver)

• City Centre

  • The Randolph Hotel

  • The Malmaison Hotel

  • Westgate shopping centre

  • ATIK night club

  • The Four Candles Wetherspoon pub

• East Oxford

  • James Street Tavern

  • The Bullingdon night club

  • The Library

  • The O2 Academy night club

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Oxford City Angels are (predominantly female) trained volunteers who sometimes patrol Oxford streets in the evening to help keep streets safe. Follow them on Facebook here.​

Provides real-time assistance and a safe forum for people to find others to walk with at night.​

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Example: “Hi guys, I’m leaving Spoons in 30mins is anyone else in the area to walk back to SEH (St Edmund Hall).”

Get warnings about or warn others of suspicious or dangerous behaviour that people encounter around Oxford, such as street harassment.

Personal safety app. Simply shake or tap a button on your phone to activate Hollie Guard, immediately notifying your chosen contacts, pinpointing your location and sending audio and video evidence directly to their mobile phones.

Personal safety app.

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Get real-time crime and safety notifications based on official sources to find safer routes.