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Unruly Drunks

He gave an example of this as
the emergency room of the University
hospital. Often drunks and
unruly people wander in because
they heard of a car accident. They
often get rowdy but as soon as an
officer from security walks in "even
these drunks" calm down.

"If the officer had not had a
gun would his presence have had
the same result? I don't know the
answer to that but we're not like
England," Mr. Bromwell said.

"I wouldn't want to try it especially

Security Director Bromwell

In Conference With Officers

in this time of rising crime
and where almost everybody can
get a gun."

Mr. Bromwell went on to give
other examples. "We had a situation
where an officer was merely
investigating an applicant for a job
and wanted to ask a few questions
of the man who lived next
door. That man had just committed
a serious crime and in his
panic he could have done almost
anything."