Word: chafin
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...become evident once all four of the departments' lieutenants have completed the course. "We'll have a better understanding of the goals of the department," he says, adding this should increase communication between the different branches of the department, and facilitate the upward input into the decision-making process. Chafin would agree. "This office has been very open to suggestions and ideas from the entire complement of personnel and has instituted programmatic changes based upon some input," Chafin says, citing the initiation of monthly plenary staff meetings, new police cruisers with more effective equipment and the influence of dispatchers' opinions...
...supervisors are in a sense glorified first line officers; they are sergeants and lieutenants who worked their way up within the department. All joined the department as patrolmen. Now, Chafin has provided them with the means to improve their supervisory techniques through three-and one-week intensive courses at the nearby Babson Command Training Institute and at Pine Manor...
...Chafin has also instituted a new "next-day" follow up program on larcenies. The crime prevention unit of the police conducts an awareness program to "correct risk situations" at the scene of the larceny the day after the incident. The awareness program operates at the same time the Criminal Investigation Unit (the undercover cops) searches for clues, interviews potential witnesses and fingerprints the building where the larceny occurred. Lt. Lawrence Fennelli has visited the Houses and the Freshman Union, conducting informal talks with undergraduates to raise their level of crime awareness. As Chafin says, the community has to cooperate...
...addition to the outside course instruction offerings, the police will be receiving some "in-house" training, Chafin says. He plans to personally train the crime prevention unit to improve their skills in burglar, murder, rape, larceny and assault investigation. In the future, Chafin believes there will be a rape prevention unit. "Paramount to the development of this is the hiring of women police officers and the creation of a 24-hour rape line," Chafin says...
University police are looking for one or more youths who broke into Larson Hall last Thursday and removed an estimated $5000 worth of office supplies belonging to the School of Education, Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police, said yesterday...