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Monday, March 26, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Lawrence officers enter final stage of training
By Curtis Knapp
Kansan staff writer
After almost five months of training, three probationary police officers went on their first solo patrols today for the KU police department.
Officers Gayle Reece, Burdell Welsh and Robert Williams will work part-time and help relieve a staffing shortage at the department, said James Denney, director of KU police. The shortage has existed since 1988, when the department noticed a difficulty in keeping up with a rising campus crime rate.
"When it started it seemed like it was going to take forever," Reece said of the training. "Now it seems like it wasn't that long."
The three officers are in the fourth stage of their police training. The process consists of academy training, classroom training, training with a sergeant and independent patrol that is closely monitored.
They are expected to achieve full officer status within a few months to a year, Denney said.
Denney said the personnel shortage was caused by a lack of money rather than a lack of demand for the job.
He cited statistics showing that in
Denney said the crime rate was increasing this year. More calls have been made since Jan. 1 than in the last three months of 1989.
1984, 18,000 calls for police service were made to the KU police. In 1989, police received 30,000 calls.
He said a new officer cost the department about $60,000. Included in that expense are training, equipment, salary and fringe benefits. The school also receives from the University, which receives it from the Leislature.
He said officers' response time to non-emergency calls had suffered from the lack of personnel. Response times vary from a few minutes to an hour.
Denney said the lack of personnel had caused police to stop providing services such as security at parties and other events and helping people get into their locked cars. Officers will continue those services when the department has nine additional fulltime officers.
Three other probationary officers are expected to be ready for patrol in June, Denney said. Three more will be hired in June and begin the training process.
"We have to make sure that everyone comes up to a certain standard," Denney said.
India leaves Sri Lanka as forces work toward peace
The Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A 42-year-old rift between Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority this week begins a new and possibly less hostile chapter with the end of India's pendulum-like intervention in the conflict.
The last Indian soldiers left Sri Lanka's northeastern shores Saturday, ending a 2½-year jungle war with the Tamil guerrillas they once trained.
Now the Sinhalese-dominated government and Tamils seeking an independent nation are reassessing their traditional antagonism. Both sides want to build on the tenuous peace they forged last summer, a peace that grew out of mutual opposition to
the Indian presence.
But the durability of their newfound understanding is being questioned.
"I am afraid the peace will break down once the convergence of their aims ends," a Western diplomat said on condition of anonymity. "And the convergence ends when the last soldier steps on a ship for home."
The Tamil-Sinhalese discord spawned a Tamil insurgency in 1983 and fueled a Sinhalese uprising against the government in 1987. The unrest has killed at least 17,000 people and brought this tropical island, once famed as a sun-and-sand holiday destination, to the brink of anarchy.
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