Assistant Chief Ashley Griffin
Ashley Griffin was appointed UTPD Assistant Chief in January 2024. Please join us in welcoming Chief Griffin back to our UT campus!
Asst. Chief Griffin started her law enforcement career with the Indiana University Police Department in 2004, where she was a part-time police officer for two years. During her time there, she was a live-in dorm officer and available on-call for the residential assistants as needed. She was hired by the University of Texas at Austin and graduated from the University of Texas System Police Academy in 2007. In January 2012, she was promoted to patrol sergeant and worked night shift patrol. In February 2014, she was transferred to the position of training coordinator for UT Austin, where she worked for two years before being promoted to Inspector for the University of Texas System Police in 2016.
During her time working for the Office of the Director of Police, she oversaw the backgrounds and hiring for all the UT institution police departments, wrote policies, served as the TCOLE training coordinator, and worked at the UT police academy as an instructor. AC Griffin is the UT System Peer Support Coordinator, having successfully received DOJ funding to create the first peer support team for each campus police department within the UT System. This groundbreaking effort was initiated to help fill a void by using trained personnel in each department to assist others when in need. AC Griffin has served on multiple TCOLE committees that have developed course curriculums for the state (Traumatic Brain Injuries, Trauma Affected Veterans, the Mental Health Officer). She currently holds a TCOLE Master Peace Officer license, Mental Health Officer license, Advanced TCOLE instructor license, Basic Hostage Negotiator certification, firearm instructor certification, and is certified in Individual and Group Crisis Intervention and Peer Support.
AC Griffin has a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in Liberal Studies, a Certificate in Criminal Justice, and minors in Sociology and Leadership, Ethics, and Social Action (LESA), respectively. She is an FBI NA graduate of the #279 class and received her master’s degree in public safety from the University of Virginia in May 2022.