Safety

What a difference a dog makes

Emergency Management Alert, June 8, 2004

In a Banner Health delivery room, it took more than humans to convince a belligerent, intoxicated man claiming to be an infant's father to leave the Phoenix hospital.

"The security officer went in and within 30 seconds, the man was ready to fight," says Don Bogardus, system director of environmental health, safety, and security.

"He was intent on taking the baby," says Bogardus, but the sight of a security canine caused him to take off "on a dead run out of there."

Read more about canine security here.

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