There are two kinds of campus law enforcement. One is an actual law-enforcement agency where officers have to go through a police academy just like a street cop. The other is campus security where security officers have walkie talkies, mace and flashlights as weapons. They might as well be carrying Fleshlights.
Really, this student should have gone to the real police and/or got in contact with the county/city District Attorney's office.
College police are not really prepared for real police work. She has an easy civil case and could get bricks of 'cash monay' for that officer's statement regarding peanut butter.