University Daily Kansan, December 10, 1984 Page 11
CAMPUS AND AREA
KU police department to move to new office
While students are home for Christmas, KU police expect to begin moving into a new home of their own. Christmas present that Police Director Jim Denney says will improve the department's efficiency.
The department, which has been scattered among three different buildings, will soon begin moving most or all of its operations into the north wing of the third floor of Carruth O'Leary Hall.
I munk this will be the most significant improvement that has occurred in five years," Denny said recently. "We expend a tremendous amount of effort in simple internal administration."
The department's administrative personnel and detectives now are jammed into half of the south wing on the third floor of Carruth O'Leary, a location that was supposed to be temporary when they moved into it in
The dispatchers are in a tiny room on the first floor of Hoch Auditorium and the patrol officers have their headquarters on the second floor of Hoch. Security officers are in the custodian's building across the street from the Computer Center
"Any police department lives on information flow," Denney said. "We have people who have to take time off from police work to transport papers."
The move depends on the arrival of the department's new communications console, which is scheduled for delivery in mid-December, he said. Once the console arrives and any bugs are worked out, the dispatchers will be moved over from Hoch.
Administrators, detectives, training officers, patrol officers and security officers eventually all will be moved into the new location, Denney said.
Moving is no simple matter for a police department, he said.
"We've got over 40 telephone lines that have to be moved," Denney said. Alarms, computer equipment and an alarm system must also be moved and installed.
"It could be a year or more before we are (totally moved)." he said.
The department's space crunch began when it was expanded in the early 1970s in response to the troubles on campus at that time. Denney said.
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