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...Chafin plans to correct some of the present policies at the HUPD, in what he calls an effort to realize the full potential of the department's personnel and other resources. He is pleased, he says, with the complement of personnel in the department, especially the extent of experience and technical training of many of its members. He is also impressed by what he sees as the members' eagerness to develop supervisory, investigative and human relations skills...
...immediately set out to improve the morale in the department by individual contacts with personnel," Chafin says, adding he considers this one of his top priorities. He sat down with each member of the department when he first arrived to emphasize the importance of continued cooperation and communication between the front office and patrolmen. That contact was one key ingredient that, Chafin says, he noticed lacking within the department when he arrived. To correct this lack, Chafin says he will consult all members of the department prior to making major decisions, whenever possible. "My management approach...
...Chafin says he will not allow lines of communication to be "truncated by middle-management personnel," adding he hopes to remain in constant communication with the patrolmen...
...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...