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...Chafin's principal innovations included sending patrolmen through the State Police Academy's full 12-week training course and establishing a sensitive crime unit to investigate sex offenses...
WHEN UNIVERSITY POLICE CHIEF Saul L. Chafin officially departed Friday to take a similar post at Vanderbilt University. Harvard lost the best cop it's ever had. University administrators, and more importantly the police officers themselves, credit Chafin with a renaissance in the department during his five-year term...
Through his leadership, Chafin transformed a force filled with union antipathy toward his predecessor and stymied by low morale into an efficient unit capable of making Harvard secure in its unique urban setting. Crime statistics indicate that the University is a safer place now than it was five years...
...Chafin accepted the post at Vanderbilt in August. The move, he said at that time, reflected the lifetime desire of his wife for a home in the South and a sense on his part that it was time for a change...
Looking around his office Thursday, Chafin reflected on his departure. "This was a very warm room," he said, gesturing at a bare desk and empty walls that still bear the marks of plaques and paintings...