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SEC. OFF. TR. ACAD. ET AL. v. PA. ST. POLICE ET AL.

No. 942 C.D. 1977.

40 Pa.Commw. 280 (1979)

Security Officers Training Academy et al., Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State Police et al., Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

February 2, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay R. Levenberg, with him Charles Lang Duncan, Jr., for petitioner.

J. Andrew Smyser, Deputy Attorney General, with him Vincent X. Yakowicz, Solicitor General, and Robert P. Kane, Attorney General, for respondent.

Argued December 7, 1978, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., ROGERS and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE ROGERS, February 2, 1979:

After finding that there were detectives, investigators, watchmen and security guards privately employed in the Commonwealth who carry lethal weapons and that accidents have occurred because of the unfamiliarity of these individuals with the handling of weapons, the General Assembly adopted the Lethal Weapons Training Act1 with the purpose of providing for the education, training and certification...

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