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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...
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...
...counter patrolmen's complaints about having to rotate their assignments every three months, Chafin decided to implement a one-year minimum assignment policy. He hopes this will allow officers a chance to develop more personal contacts with members of the community, and also help officers to become familiar with a particular area--"so they feel they are a part of it, not apart from...
...Chafin hopes that the minimal reorganization he plans will help ease the officers' worried over their job security. "You want people to function, and they're all walking on eggshells," he says...