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Visitor management, COVID-19 impact, and more pressing matters

Lauris Freidenfelds has been in the healthcare security arena long enough to recognize it’s not about turning security team members into law enforcement agents. The two aren’t equivalent and never will be.

“Security has a role, and I've always looked at this as a continuum,” says Freidenfelds, senior project manager for Wilmington, Delaware–based Telgian Engineering & Consulting. “Law enforcement is great at responding and arresting and prosecuting and all that other kind of stuff. Security's role overlaps a little bit of that, but they're primarily involved in preventing these things from happening.

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