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"This is an area where a lot of people support you for being here," said [Hugh Coburn], who also started up a patrol program at the University of Winnipeg. "The ambassadors are the eyes and ears of the police... anything they see that's not right they'll report to the police."
"Those guys would have froze to death. They were already turning black," he said. Using a two-way radio patrollers carry, they called their boss -- Coburn -- for permission to touch the men to try and rouse them, because patrollers aren't normally allowed physical contact with residents. "The paramedics said without us they wouldn't have lasted another 10 minutes," said Coburn. "Most people wouldn't give them the time of day, so the chances of them being saved were close to none, I think."See the full content of this document
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