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Article: STATE POLICE LEADER TO LEAVE FOR BU POST
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2006
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Colonel Thomas G. Robbins, superintendent of the Massachusetts
State Police for the past two years, said yesterday that he is
resigning to lead the Boston University Police Department.
During his tenure, he sought to revamp the State Police crime
laboratory and to restore confidence in the training of recruits,
after allegations of abuse rocked the training academy.
Robbins, 48, said his new job, with a far smaller force, was a "a
good opportunity for myself and my family."
He said a recent report that found significant problems at the
State Police Academy had played no role "whatsoever" in his decision
to leave the department, which he has served for 26 years.
"After 26 years of great ...