File photo of Prince Edward. I swear.
The security officer probably broke protocol.
Posted on 03/26/2006 7:31:04 AM PST by sully777
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian police were embarrassed Thursday after having to discipline an officer assigned to guard Prince Edward for taking unauthorized photographs of the British visitor's hotel suite.
Police said an officer assigned to a security detail for dignitaries at the Commonwealth Games had been seen during a routine security sweep taking photographs of the suite the prince will occupy until Monday.
The photographs were confiscated and destroyed.
"The member involved was stood down from Games duties and returned to normal duties," a police spokesman said.
Victoria state police commissioner Christine Nixon said another snap-happy officer had also been disciplined for getting too close to Edward's mother, Queen Elizabeth, during her visit to open the Games last week.
"In both those cases, I think they are an error of judgment, and both those people are back in their own work and I think that's probably sufficient to deal with those matters," Nixon told reporters.
The current Commonwealth Games, held every four years, are being contested by 71 teams from across the grouping of mainly British former colonies.
We just can not have people taking pictures of hotel furniture, it is totally wrong.
Was it a security problem to photograph a suite?
Every day in every way I bite my tongue when it comes to Great Britain and the royals.
Why give mad bombers extra information?
You're joking, right?
This whole report is a joke.
Oh no, we can't have someone taking a flippin' picture of an empty hotel suite or getting 'too close' to one of these inbred 'untouchables' now can we?
I guess the world will never outgrow a caste system. We have one right here in the good ol' USA now since we let the Repblic go all to hell and now our 'public servants' think that they are our masters now.
In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master".
ROBERT HEINLEIN as Lazarus Long
I tried to stand down and I fell up again.
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