Police Name Officer For Ann Arbor High

The Ann mbor Pólice Department's senior patrolman, Robert D. Robinson, assumes new duties as the on-duty officer at Ann Arbor High School on Friday. Robinson, 45, who has been a city policeman for the past 22 years, last week was transferred by Pólice Chief Walter E. Krasny from the department's Youth Bureau to the Police-Community Relations section. His assignment today to full-time duty at Ann Arbor High School was announced with what Krasny called a "redeíining" of the role expected of the school officer. Patrolman Robinson will be responsible directly to Sgt. Kenneth B. Klinge, director of the department's Police-Community Relations Bureau. He will function "strictly as a pólice officer" without assuming duties normally performed by members of the school staff, Chief Krasny said. The chief s a i d Robinson's background, which includes several years as a Youth Bureau officer as well as numerous activities as an adult counselor for youth groups, makes him exceptionally qualified for the school position. Officer Robinson has seniority over all of the department's 70 patrolmen. He wears badge number one, having joined the Pólice Department in 1946. In his 22 years of service he has served in every phase of pólice activity including the Traffic División, uniform patrol, desk duty, Detective Bureau and Youth Bureau. For years he has been the department's top pistol shot, retiring a number of marksman trophies and placing high in the list of winners of virtually every state and regional pistol meet he has entered. He is considered the department's expert on firearms and weapons.