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...purpose of the booklet, Chafin says, "is to make sure students know they're living in a dangerous city, but that they can be safe if they follow simple rules." Those rules range from the usual pablum about not walking alone at night and not accepting rides from strangers to very detailed, hard-headed recommendations. For example, "Playing It Safe" advises that if you notice someone following you down the street...
According to Police Chief Chafin, much of the credit for the new lights at Radcliffe should go to SOS, which pushed vigorously for them after the rape last year. The effect of the lights, he adds, "will be to increase both security and the perception of security" at the Quad...
...Harvard's Police Department, which had as many as 74 personnel at its peak ten years ago, will be increased from 60 to 64 employees this fall. Four new officers, currently in training at Topsfield Police Academy, are scheduled to join the force in mid-October. This additional manpower, Chafin says, will allow the department to place a uniformed street patrolman in the area of the River Houses every night...
Moreover, Chafin says, the department may soon purchase communications equipment to join the Boston Area Police Emergency Radio Network (BAPERN). The equipment, which could cost upwards of $10,000, is necessary because the Cambridge Police Department--the only department with which Harvard policemen now have radio contact--is switching to BAPERN this fall. If Cambridge switches and Harvard does not, Chafin says, the University Police will lose contact with the city...
Harvard Police currently use a sophisticated, $50,000 communications center that was purchased just last year when the department moved its headquarters from Grays Hall to 29 Garden St. Because of the new location, Chafin says, the average time that it takes for a police cruiser to reach its destination after an emergency radio call has decreased from three to two minutes...