Bus drivers wore police uniforms for Bush visit

[dudeness]

By Brendan Nicholson
Canberra
October 30, 2003





Civilians employed by the Australian Federal Police as cooks and bus drivers wore police uniforms during the massive security operation to protect President George Bush.

Mandy Newton, the ACT's acting deputy chief police officer and head of the Bush visit police operation, confirmed yesterday that 46 "unsworn" AFP employees were used to support 531 police over two days.

Commander Newton said some civilian personnel wore police reflective vests and one or two wore blue overalls with the word "Police" on the back.

She said that had been done to identify them to local and US security personnel as a "deliberate decision on the grounds of security and safety: security so that the US Secret Service, Australian Protective Service and other personnel knew the barbecue staff, the bus drivers, the food preparers and others were members of the AFP; and safety so that, especially at night on arrival in the dark, the reflective vests would enable the wearers to be better seen."



The AFP officers' union, the Australian Federal Police Association, said the use of civilians had created a dangerous situation. Association president Jon Hunt-Sharman said the civilians were placed at risk as they were not trained to perform the role of sworn police.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/29/1067233253545.html?from=storyrhs

is bush paranoid or what?.canberra is not baghdad believe me..lol

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. Good grief

I would'nt be surprised if that has already been done here at home in America -- opps I meant 'Murka .

[Julien Sorel]

2. Fake cops to protect a fake president.

What's the big deal?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

4. How Ironic !

:)

[charlie]

3. Madness

Is the whole fucking world in this clown's thrall? When is someone, anyone going to tell him to go piss up a rope?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

5. No

actually those that WILL tell him are sent behind closed fences . A friend proposed wrapping himself around a fence and following the Prez everywhere he was being led by the SS .

[R Hickey]

6. Bush was disguised as a giant chicken-hawk til just before his speech.

And Cheney was there too, but never took off his disguise the whole trip, so his whereabouts went completely un-reported. The fact is that Cheney needed heart surgery at one point, and shared a hospital room Oswama Ben Laden, who was undergoing dialisis.