<p>Hello,</p>
<p>“Under the Vatican legal system, the Swiss Guard is a military corps. But because Swiss law forbids citizens to serve in a foreign army, the papal Swiss guards have the status of a private police force.” More info: [The</a> mercenaries who converted the Vatican - swissinfo](<a href=“http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/The_mercenaries_who_converted_the_Vatican.html?cid=4960306]The”>The mercenaries who converted the Vatican - SWI swissinfo.ch)</p>
<p>University of Chicago states simply “over one hundred state certified officers”
University of Penn. states 116 officers, but notes that they are only the second largest university police force
Harvard no info given on exact size</p>
<p>The MP5 I saw… I don’t walk around snapping pictures of everything, so unfortunately I can’t prove it. Frankly almost every police force in the country has a whole arsenal of weaponry that’s never seen.
If we want to go on about why you have never seen one of the officers with a larger firearm… I have only one polite reason, never happening to walk by one (or you’ve simply forgotten)… the other reasons are not particularly nice (I can write them out if you really want to hear them) ;)</p>
<p>Cheers
:)</p>