"This is a wonderful opportunity to work with people I respect," McCaul said. "I know this is a good group of people."
As seen from the police's point of view, Harvard--a diverse community with diverse needs--poses special challenges: an open campus, located both in downtown Boston and Cambridge, and a multiracial student body of widely varying ages and backgrounds.
"There are so many reasons that this is a difficult and unique place to police," Catalano said.
Catalano, who served as a grant administrator for federal and local police agencies, said he wants to apply his expertise to Harvard.
"I see this as an opportunity to practice what I've been preaching [as a grant administrator]," he says.
The key to community policing, McCaul and Catalano said, is to focus on the three "p's": prevention, partnership and problem solving.
"It's vital that the police listen to the community's problems," Catalano says.
While it is too early for either Catalano or McCaul to know what they plan to do at HUPD, they both know they don't plan to suggest any major changes.
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