[DArancio56]

I was in the Dartmouth Mall yesterday and I noticed that the security guard had a pair of handcuffs and OC on his duty belt. With this being the first time I had ever seen this, I ask him a few questions about his training. He stated that he received "classes from where police officers get their training" on OC and handcuffs, but had never attended any academy of any sort, nor is he sworn by the Dartmouth police. It seems scary to me that someone is carrying a level three defensive tactic when they do not have the training to know when they can/cannot apply that amount of force. The guy was shady and I could tell he did not feel comfortable with answering my questions; his response to any question he didn't know was "this was private property".

I was afraid that if I kept asking him more questions, he would handcuff me or spray me. Can anyone help me out on where they get the powers to do this? Has anyone else run into something similar to this?