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...Saul Chafin, chief of University police, says the Sensitive Crimes Unit will help make the unit more professional and independent of other police. Captain Jack W. Morse says. "Before, we left sensitive crimes to a few individuals with training in that area. Now there's a definitive unit with specific goals...
...those aims is to provide long-term care to assault victims. The police will move a raped student to another House or dormitory, check on her periodically, and--if her assailant is arrested--stay with her throughout the trial, Chafin says. "We want her to know it's not her against the world. It's her, the Harvard police, the University and the Commonwealth against the perpetrator," he says...
...information given to the unit remains confidential. Only the unit officers, Chafin and Morse have access to the separate, locked file, Chafin says...
Having once organized a similar unit at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Chafin approached Sullivan and Blaney shortly after they were hired last fall as the first women on the force--under state law, a rape unit must include at least one female officer...
...Rather, Chafin said the new facilities will offer "a clean, wholesome working environment...