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Saturday, December 29, 2001

Dec 29, 2001 - DAVID ROBBINS, POLICE CHIEF

DAVID ROBBINS, POLICE CHIEF -
Boston Globe

GREENWICH, Conn. - David Watson Robbins, who began his career as a police officer rounding up bootleggers during Prohibition and rose through the ranks to become chief, died Thursday morning. He was 94.

Mr. Robbins had difficulty recovering from a bout of pneumonia last week. His son, Peter, the current police chief in Greenwich, was at his side.Mr. Robbins was police chief from 1955 to 1963.

Mr. Robbins, born in Greenwich in 1907, became a patrolman in 1929, following the path of.....

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