Word: chafin
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Women are among the new "policepersons" Chafin plans to recruit. The department does not presently have any women within its officer corps. In addition, the police department will require not only written, oral and physical examinations for new candidates, but will add a psychological examination administered by a qualified psychologist...
...Chafin followed the meeting with force members by riding in difference police cruisers for a full month. "That way," he says, "when the patrolmen speak to an issue, I'll have some sense of what they're talking about." He says he will cruise with the patrolmen again once most students have returned in the fall...
...elimination of the stress test is another welcomed "correction" of Chafin's new administration. The union vigorously opposed the implementation of the test, which registers physical reactions under artifical stress, during the contract negotiations last fall. HPA negotiators faulted the test for its rigidity: the patrolmen argued that the test exaggerates every small physical problem, and might be used as an excuse for disqualifying basically fit patrolmen from active duty. Harvard included the test in the contract but agreed to delay implementation until July 1979. Chafin says, however, that it will not be implemented...
Included in his scope of "corections" is a plan to send one of the department's lieutenants to a three-week intensive command supervisory training course at the Command Training Institute at Babson College. This opportunity, Chafin says, was never before open to the University police; he says he plans to send all newly appointed supervisory personnel to the Institute in the future...
...Chafin says he plans to develop a "new promotional mode" in the department. Candidates for promotion will first have to take a written examination prepared by an outside agency, and then go through a follow-up oral examination. The new chief also expects to fill a few patrolmen's jobs in the near future, a move that will likely please the several patrolmen who last spring wondered why the police administration never bothered to fill the vacancies that occurred during the Gorski administration. Patrolman James P. Sullivan explained last June that when Gorski entered the department, he claimed he would...