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...that the incidence of property and violent crime on Harvard property has declined significantly. And there have been other changes, as well. New leadership and increased input into the decision-making system have eased the pentup tension of the policeman who last year, still recuperating from the David L. Gorski and Steven Hall administration, claimed morale was at an all-time...
Chief Saul I. Chafin arrived at Harvard this June to head a University police department still reeling from the extensive innovations of his predecessor, former police chief David L. Gorski. The old chief resigned amid controversy over a year ago, leaving police morale at an all-time low. Most of Harvard's 42 patrolmen worried, with good reason, about the future of the force, and with that their own jobs. Harvard, they feared, was out to cut the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) down to nothing but security guards. Gorski's organizational reforms made many cops wonder whether their...
...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 reduce the size of the force; over the next three years the force diminished by 30 per cent, mainly through attrition and rigid physical requirements. Chafin's new policy may well relieve...
Though initial reactions toward Chafin seem favorable, the police officers are still hesitant to pass judgment on their new chief. Some doubt that Chafin will be able to change his predecessor's policies, simply because Harvard wants it that way. "What are we to think when, the night after Gorski resigned, the union officials are called to a quick meeting at personnel, where we were informed that they have adopted Gorski's policies?" Laurence F. Letteri, president of the HPA, asks. Skepticism remains...
Chafin, who has experience with both campus and urban police departments, said earlier this week that he would not come to Harvard and make changes just for their own sake. That attitude should please the Harvard Police Association, whose members are still unhappy over the organizational innovations Gorski instituted while head of the department...