Our hospital instituted a no carry policy - which I have obeyed...
Recently, a robber running from a mugging ran into the hospital through a side door and disappeared... The police swarmed the hospital, TV cameras around the outside, helicopter overhead, dogs, swat team, the whole nine yards.. This is a big hospital - hundreds of beds - and they were all over it for the rest of the day...
9 hours later a lady cop (shift change and she just arrived) who used to work at the hospital as a security guard said, did they check the supply closet just inside the door the guy popped in..
The answer was that the supply closet door was self locking and had to be opened with a key to get in OR OUT and the robber couldn't have gotten in there... She said, "just check it"...
Janitor quietly walked over to the supply closet and opened the door with his key... Both the robber and the cop about wet themselves...
Turned out that a previous janitor had just walked out of the closet when the robber came in the door and the door hydraulic closer hadn't completely shut the door yet (it's a slow door, I tried it later) and the guy slipped into the supply closet without the lady janitor noticing him... When the robber tried to sneak out later he discovered to his surprise he was locked in as the lock only works with the key, not the knob...
denny