APF(American Police Force) Show Up IN HARDIN, Montana-Comandeer Jurisdiction

http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/61320122.html ^ | Sep 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM MDT | By Nick Lough

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BILLINGS - American Police Force officials showed up in Mercedes SUV's that had "Hardin Police" stenciled on the vehicles. The twist, the city of Hardin doesn't have a police department. Two Rivers Authority officials say having APF patrol the streets was never part of their agenda. "I have no idea. I really don't because that's not been a part of any of the discussions we've had with any of them," said Two Rivers Authority's Al Peterson. As it stands now the Big Horn County Sheriff's Department is contracted to patrol the city and APF has no jurisdiction. If that was changed Peterson says it would have to go through the city council. As for the jail contract with APF, both sides are yet to agree to a deal as bondholders rejected it again on Thursday morning. "It's a complicated issue there are a lot of tax laws to work through we were hoping to get it by Tuesday night now we're hoping to get it by Friday night," said Peterson. Officials say the contract only deals with the detention facility and a police training center. There's no mention of a homeless shelter, animal shelter, or any services for the area. "That was never in the contract to begin with. I think it was on a wish list of what Captain Michael wanted to do here," said Peterson. American Police Force officials plan to stay in the area for the next month.

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[ebiskit]

Found some corresponding links 4 more info.

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Montana Town Taken Over By National Civilian Security Force Link description

City of Hardin & surrounding area is now becoming a police state!

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[HiTech RedNeck]

APF scrod up.

[randomhero97]

It appears this is a military contractor group. Not liking this at all.

http://www.americanpolicegroup.com/

[swheats]

Has anybody ever asked and got an answer from the president what he meant about a national security force as strong as the military? Or should we add that to the list of unmentionables?

This is not the change real citizens expected.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Looky!!!...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Supposedly they are a recycler of ex-cops.

[B-Chan]

Something’s not right here... this “APF” is awful flashy for a genuine contracting outfit. Their website (registered thru a proxy, btw) is full of spelling and grammar errors, and plastered with stock photo imagery. And why are they wearing the arms of the Kingdom of Serbia?

Is this some sort of viral marketing for an upcoming movie?

[randomhero97]

From this page: http://www.americanpolicegroup.com/weapon.html

American Police Force (APF) offers the world's finest products and services to the military, police, and security professionals. We present to you our comprehensive product category list:

Weapons & Equipment Sales - INTL ONLY

Security Systems Military Supplies.
Duffle bags, tritium compasses, Alice packs, pistol belt, thermo gear, 1st aid kits, and M17 bags.
Shields, riot gear, police and military uniforms, cooling vests, body armor, ballistics vests, hazmat suites.
Police Cars, trucks, command and control vehicles, fire trucks, ambulances, towing trucks, fuel trucks, general shop vehicles, passenger busses, vans, water transport trucks, 4 WD trucks and other specialty vehicles.
All United States made handguns, shot guns and U.S. major selection weapons.
Fire Machine Guns and associated accessories including cleaning kits.
9mm hand guns & AK 47's.
Unit level armors kit, ammunitions.
Telecommunication (Thuraya Satellite telephone, cell/mobile phones, Motorola GP 320 Handheld UHF/VHF Radios, battery cells and more).
IT Systems (computers, laptops, fax machines, copiers, scanners, cartridges, scanners, printers, etc).
Body Armor, batons, fire glass riot helmet, and shin guards, & megaphones.
Armored cars and vehicles (Vans, SUVs, Cars, and trucks). Police riot equipment.
Force Protection- WMD.
Nuclear/Biological/Chemical (WMD).
Monitoring and Access Control Systems.
X Ray, robot systems, mine clearing, tools, explosives/perforators, and disposal containers.

Huh?

[ebiskit]

The sheriff & township contracted w/ them to run prison ops, but they seem to have taken over other areas of jurisdictional authority w/o approval of the City Council.

Strange things are certainly afoot at the Circle-K

tahDeetz

[HiTech RedNeck]

Life stranger than fiction.

As for the typogaffes...

I saw an ad the other day from a prestigious laboratory looking for applicants with doctoral degrees for “advance” [sic] research. I guess they did not have “advance” proof reading for their ad.

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I can’t find anything on the net about this,,,

Still lookin’...

[Outlaw Woman]

Maybe consider posting this on the Montana Freeper page see if anyone is close enough to verify. Just a thought

[HiTech RedNeck]

An earlier report simply said they had stuck the “official” logos on their cars, and then took them off at the city’s insistence. What this says to me is some way over eager yokel doing the hard hard sell. It is not time for tin foil.

[ebiskit]

Could this have something to do with Montana’s recent 10th Amendment push-back & the nose-thumbing they gave the BATFE with the recently passed legislation that expressed Montana’s 2nd Amendment preeminence?

tD

[HiTech RedNeck]

Let the Reynolds company keep their aluminum.

[B-Chan]

Not much on the Tubes about this APF. Almost all of the articles I've been able to find that mention them are from small-town Montana TV stations and papers -- easy targets for viral marketers. I did find this AP article in a two-week-old issue of the SF Examiner:

Mont. jail contract worth $2.6M a year
By: MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press
09/18/09 5:50 PM PDT

BILLINGS, MONT. — An obscure California security company was planning a jobs fair next week as it prepared to pay $2.6 million annually to take over a rural Montana jail that the company plans to expand into a military and police training center.

Some of those activities could involve training military and police from overseas — including Afghanistan — to run detention centers and provide security in their home countries, said company representatives and an official in Hardin, the city that built the $27 million jail.

Skepticism lingered because of a refusal by the company, Santa Ana, Calif.-based American Police Force, to say where it would get $30 million it says it will invest in the project.

It's also unclear where the prisoners and trainees would come from.... [Moar]

And again -- what the connection with the royal house of Serbia? If this is for real, it's mighty strange. Anybody in Santa Ana care to visit the company headquarters (1202 East 17th Street, Suite 200, Santa Ana, CA 92701) and check it out?

[I_be_tc]

Later

[HiTech RedNeck]

Moar?

[B-Chan]

Meme (NSFW).

MOAR MOAR MOAR