Police helping ski hills run smoothly
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- Created on Sunday, 26 December 2010 16:47
- Written by Nathan
By JASON BLEVINS, THE DENVER POST
VAIL — Ed Murphy leans closer and inspects the badge on Jessica Mayes' ski jacket.
"Really?" says the Washington, D.C., skier vacationing in Vail as he shuffles alongside Mayes in a lift line. "How wild is that? We're getting on line with a cop. We better behave ourselves."
"Really?" is the most common query fielded by Mayes and the six other Vail police officers who regularly volunteer to patrol Vail Mountain on skis. The second: "Do you ski with a gun?"
"It is part of the uniform," says Vail police Cmdr. Craig Bettis, who has never actually used it on the mountain but still sometimes answers: "James Bond skis with a gun."
Police officers on the hill are nothing new in Vail, where the local department
Other ski areas, including Breckenridge, Monarch and Durango Mountain Resort, also welcome skiing cops, who, like at Vail, volunteer to ski in uniform and help with the occasional problem.
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