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...gray berets are the symbol of the Task Force, Chief David L. Gorski's attempt to modernize the Harvard Police. The members of the Task Force--five patrolmen, one sergeant, and Lieutenant Larry Murphy--patrol Harvard property every night in plain clothes and unmarked cars, patrolling special computerized routes. Murphy, the coordinator of the Force, feeds statistics on the time and locations of crimes into the Harvard Police computer, which then tells him what areas the Force should patrol at what times. Soon with the help of a Northeastern University expert, Murphy will evaluate the progress of the Task Force...
Then last summer an anonymous postcard advised investigators that all was not well. Other tips followed, including a letter from nine unidentified police officers, disclosing that patrolmen were being forced to pay kickbacks to their commanders for off-duty work and that a cops' slush fund for social affairs and special police equipment had mysteriously disappeared. A department probe was launched, and when it began unearthing evidence of corruption, the grand jury took over. What it was investigating was a story of vice cops soliciting bribes and police shaking down people for money, merchandise and prostitutes' services. Under...
Lawrence Letteri, the Patrolmen's Association president, said last week there was no dissension in the ranks about accepting the new agreement. The cops had been without a contract since June 30 and Letteri feels most patrolmen were pretty anxious to get something down on paper...
Harvard has a couple of points in its favor in the new pact, as Edward W. Powers, the University's director of employee relations and chief labor negotiator, pointed out las week. For one thing, Letteri withdrew one of his major demands, that 10 to 12 patrolmen be added to the force, before the union and Harvard even went into mediation. In addition, the 18-month duration of the pact, six months longer than the old contract, is a significant plus for Harvard...
Earlier this fall, as tension was mounting in the University police force over stalemated contract talks with Harvard, a number of patrolmen staged a protest at the personnel office to complain against an alleged violation of their old contract by police chief David L. Gorski...