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...attempt to better deal with attacks, the University police last month set up a unit to investigate rapes, assaults, molestation and other brutal crimes. The new "Sensitive Crimes Unit" includes eight male detectives and the department's two patrolwoman. Although trained to search the scene of a crime, photograph evidence or marks on the victim and take statements, the unit's primary concern is getting medical attention for the victim, Marie L. Sullivan '79, a patrolwoman, says...
Nonetheless, that training is thorough. Sullivan and Patrolwoman Barbara A. Blaney need detective skills only when they are investigating sexual crimes, but they have taken courses in searching crime scenes, taking statements, forensics, case preparation and rapist psychology...
Driving down Main Street, one was forced to wonder just how many times the second officer had to fend off errant hands from passing windows. "Hey cutie," screamed one particularly obnoxious truck driver stopped in the traffic. But the patrolwoman must have been used to this sort of treatment, because as the truck driver went past she neatly sidestepped his searching hand. The other patrolman laughed and, as the patrolwoman turned her back, he flashed an okay sign to the truckdriver...
...hired the lone woman on its force in response to the growing female population on campus, MIT Police Chief Driscoll said yesterday. He also said that the patrolwoman they hired in July will perform the same function as the other officers on the force...