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Big city or Boxford, says new chief, he’s ‘trying to help’

By John Laidler

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 01, 2012

He has been a law enforcement leader in a busy, blue collar city. Now Michael J. Murphy is experiencing what it is like to bring those skills to a decidedly different environment. Murphy, until recently a Revere police captain and the department’s executive officer, began work last month as Boxford’s new police chief.

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