Mr Broughton stressed opposition to the idea of private security firms being allowed to sport police badges whilst giving his support, within certain strict restrictions, to private community wardens.
For instance, she blithely ended the nuclear weapons laboratories' traditional practice of giving different colored badges to lab personnel based on their "need to know" and levels of security clearance.
Airports across the United States have revoked the badges of tens of thousands of people who, although unauthorized, had been able to bypass security checkpoints and gain access to airplanes.