More than a year after a Temple police officer was shot and killed, where does the university’s safety stand?Jennifer Griffin stood at the intersection in North Philadelphia where Christopher Fitzgerald Way was named after the Temple University police officer killed there on duty more than 13 months ago.
The university is offering signing bonuses and pay increases, hiring officers from other departments, exploring recruiting from a shorter-term police academy than Philadelphia’s 38-week program, and offering students interested in becoming officers a chance to ride along with Temple’s cops. Still, she said, officers respond quickly and the university pays city police for an additional 288 hours a week in supplemental patrols in the university patrol zone. Temple also uses 390 security officers, she said.
Brian Hart, an alumnus and critic of the department, last month publicly praised Griffin’s and the department’s response to“You’re going to hear me probably for the first time in a while give a lot of credit, the administration in particular ... how they communicated and a big change in tone,” he said on the Dawn Stensland show.
But Kaiser said in an interview that the directive does not include public safety, which has money to hire officers when they are available.
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