Computer to Help Police Fight Crime

University police will begin using the Business School's computer next week to determine high crime areas in the Harvard community so that officers can patrol these areas at peak crime hours, Sgt. Lawrence J. Murphy, the officer in charge of the operation, said yesterday.

But this computerized system will be ineffective if the present system of funding is not changed, because Harvard's police department will not be able to move officers to where the crime is before it happens. Harvard Police Chief David Gorski said yesterday.

Specific Amount

Under the present funding system, the College and the various graduate schools each buy a specific amount of police manpower to patrol its area at certain times of the day. Gorski said. The police department cannot move men to a different area on its own initiative, he said.

In order to use the computers effectively, Gorski saw each University faculty should be assessed for general police services.

"It doesn't make any sense to know where comes are going to happen if you can't assign officers there," he said.