Moving Forward With Private Police Plans, Johns Hopkins Hires Former Police Commissioner As Public Safety VP

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Johns Hopkins is moving guardant with plans to make its ain constabulary force.

The assemblage conscionable hired Granville Bard Jr. arsenic vice president for nationalist safety. Bard is presently the constabulary commissioner of Cambridge, Massachusetts, location to institutions similar Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Hopkins said successful a connection that Bard “earned a estimation arsenic a vocal advocator for societal justice, radical equity, and constabulary reform.”

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Starting adjacent month, helium volition oversee each information operations astatine the assemblage arsenic good arsenic Hopkins Medicine campuses and different facilities worldwide.

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Bard volition play a cardinal relation successful processing the Hopkins Police Department. Plans for this person been successful the works for much than a year, but they were halted aft nationwide protests implicit constabulary brutality.

CBS Baltimore Staff