Harvard Yard is still patrolled by proprietary guards, and so Harvard guard Ernie Duarte was the one to pinpoint the burglar's location by tracking his movements through the key-card system.
Following Duarte's actions, fellow guards and some police lamented that the sort of the alert, hands-on security that Duarte provided may soon be missing from campus.
"I don't think we'll be seeing more of what Ernie did," one HUPD officer said.
Harvard Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley disagreed, saying an SSI guard could have done the same thing.
"Anyone who is paying good attention will pick up on things like that," Riley says.
Another difficulty with the SSI guards, according to police, came during Head of the Charles Weekend, when the speaker at a Faculty Club dinner was prevented from entering the Yard SSI guards because he didn't have a Harvard I.D.
The speaker found some uniformed Harvard guards, who let him in.
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