Sadly it is a requirement in today’s world. How big is your hospital and how many officers are on duty at any one time? The hospitals in my area are hugh. It is being reported that this scum bag went to the delivery wing - I suspect most incidents take place in the ED.
Our ‘’labor and delivery’’ as maternity wards are called now is on the fifth floor of this building. That's the top floor and you don't get on to it unless you go through several checkpoints and you're closely watched.
Our “L&D’’ unit is on the top floor so in the event of an ‘’elopement''(an abduction) the elevators can be shut down and the stairways blocked. Yeah most incidents of the... unpredictable kind happen in the ER. You see the whole parade of the human condition. I remember once an elderly woman was bought in, on her own two feet, who looked old as sin and stood barely five foot. I don't know what in the world granny did but she had about four cops, one of our armed security guards and two other security guards escorting her in. God only knows. Granny must have offed somebody.