The article examines similarities and differences between municipal and campus police agencies with respect to various human resource characteristics and policies: the proportion of sworn personnel, gender and race of sworn officers, salaries and benefits, educational requirements, levels of training required, drug testing policies, and the extent of collective bargaining/unionization. The comparison disclosed that: (1) campus departments employed a larger percentage of non-sworn staff; (2) campus departments compare very favorably with city agencies in female and minority hiring; (3) a higher percentage of campus departments required þsome collegeþ of their applicants; (4) a higher percentage of campus departments had pre-employment drug testing policies; (5) campus police salaries and educational incentive pay were consistently lower than their city counterparts but campus departments compared favorably regarding hazardous duty, shift differential and merit pay; and (6) campus departments were clearly behind the cities in the degree to which they were allowed to collectively bargain. Tables, notes, references, bibliography