In a county often labeled a “bedroom community,” four young Carroll natives who graduate Friday from the law enforcement academy say they want to stay and work there for the rest of their lives.

“Rather than living here and working somewhere else, I?d like to stay because it will be more like helping your own,” Phillip Lawrence, 23, of Taneytown, said Wednesday as he sat in the dining hall of the Public Safety Education and Training Center in Sykesville.