It was nice having them there we always felt very safe, and they were usually a good group. We would have twenty-plus cop cars in the parking lot. As part of the deal with him, we blocked out a large number of rooms for the conference over a three-day period - discounted rooms at the state rate. We always put him in a room close to the front desk at his request, and he told us to call him if we ever needed anything. He was a very nice guy, probably in his early forties, and he would buy our staff dinner and bring treats and snacks - really an upstanding guy. Carl was a higher-ranking police officer and trainer. We had a guy who used us several times a year (I will call him Carl) who put on different trainings for police officers.
We had a conference center that fit maybe 300 people. In the mid-2000s when I was nineteen, I worked for an eighty-two-room hotel.
