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The Misericordia and Grey Nuns hospitals are the latest health centres in Edmonton to have put weapons detection systems in place.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike a lot of big acute centres across the province and country, we have had incidents,\u201d Adam Carleton, Covenant Health\u2019s corporate director for protective services, emergency management and parking, said in an interview with CBC News.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo this is us taking a proactive step to increase safety in our emergency departments. Our emergency departments are typically where we see most of our activity with regards to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
Covenant Health announced the implementation of the systems at the Misericordia and the Grey Nuns earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Edmonton\u2019s Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) and University of Alberta Hospital began using such systems earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The RAH implemented weapons screening in May following a stabbing at that hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Covenant Health said the weapons detection systems implemented by the Misericordia Community Hospital and Grey Nuns Community Hospital were procured from Evolv Technology, and are similar to walk-through weapon-screening systems at concert or sports venues.<\/p>\n