Word: chafin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saul L. Chafin, chief of the University Police, said detectives assigned to the case are expected to complete their investigation today...
University officials including Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police, and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, yesterday refused to discuss the case, citing privacy laws...
Other changes have also helped to take the bite out of union demands. Chafin has improved internal communication through a new organizational structure and monthly plenary staff meetings. Though the chain of command structure still remains in place, complaints do, on the whole, manage to filter to the top. For example, late May, a group of women within the department complained that they were not being treated professionally by the overwhelmingly male force. Chafin says he held a meeting with a core group of the staff to correct the situation immediately because, he says, "I thought it was an extremely...
Despite what Chafin calls his "incremental changes," the police still suffer from the radical changes ushered in by Gorski. Many of the officers are understandably wary about the shift to the more professional image, and nostalgically refer to the days when they could fight crime without relying on computer printouts. Their persistent dissatisfaction with the new system--responding to crime determined by problem areas the computer identifies--stems from errors in the data feeding process. When a robbery that occurred at Winthrop House at 2 a.m. wasn't reported to the police until 5 p.m. the next day, the computer...
...Chafin says that as of last July, the computer indexing of crimes has been corrected and the difference should help to legitimize the computer system. "Time moves on and we have to be progressive. With the volume of work there's no way in hell that we can handle the work load manually," Chafin says...