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INDIA SECURITY GUARDS 6
(NYT42) GURGAON, India -- March 2, 2009 -- INDIA-SECURITY-GUARDS-6 -- Security guards practice fire safety during a training course at TerraForce Security Services in Gurgaon, India, Jan. 19, 2009. Security guards have been a sometimes sleepy presence in India for decades, but they have morphed from tea-fetchers at government offices and car-washers at homes of the wealthy to corporate India's de facto police force. India's police are so thinly spread and under-resourced that companies take care of most security themselves, opening their wallets to hire a local guard firm. (J. Adam Huggins/The New York Times)