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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...
Those questions remain, but the threat of a sizing down of the force seems less ominous since Chafin's arrival. Patrolmen are, by and large, taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the department and its latest addition. Chafin, in turn, has asked for time to work out the problems existing within the department, and the members of the Harvard Police Association (HPA), the union representing the Harvard patrolmen, are giving him just that...
...Chafin, a black, 41-year-old former Hartford, Conn. police officer, joined Harvard in June after a six-year stint (including one year as director of security) with the department of public safety at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A seven-member committee of administrators, professors, the acting police chief and a student at the Law School chose Chafin from a pool of 200 applicants one year after the position was vacated. Joe B. Wvatt, vice president for administration and a member of the search committee, says the committee selected Chafin because of his blend of urban and university...
...Chafin sits in his Grays Hall office, puffing on a cigar and contemplating his new surroundings. He is careful about his choice of words, only too aware that he is walking the proverbial tightrope; he has to please his new employers, but still work at assuring the members of the department that he will look out for them. He says the job is a challenge to him, not only because of the University's urban setting, but also because he must strive to improve the morale of the department...
William A. Lee set a North American record for babysitting this year, holding onto the post of acting chief of University police for 13 months before a University search committee named his permanent successor. The committee finally settled on Saul Chafin, former director of public safety at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...