Australian Police Bungle Gives Woman Bomb Laden Bag

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A FEDERAL police officer is under investigation after a bungled training exercise ended up with a woman leaving Sydney airport with a bomb-laden suitcase.

THE Australian Federal Police (AFP) did not know the suitcase and unarmed explosives were even missing until the NSW woman handed it over to police three weeks later.
She arrived at the airport and was handed a replacement suitcase from an unknown airline's lost-and-found after her bag was damaged during a flight on August 14.
The airline was not aware the replacement bag was lined with 230 grams of plastic explosives and was left in its lost-baggage area for an AFP training exercise.
She left the airport with the bag and discovered the explosives hidden inside it three weeks later, on September 9.
After finding the device, she took it to Cessnock police station in NSW's Hunter region, where officers had to evacuate the building as a safety precaution.
NSW Police tracked the explosives back to the AFP and delivered the training aid to AFP officers at Sydney airport.
The hidden explosives were part of a training exercise for its canine detection unit.
An AFP spokesperson said while it had safeguards in place, they were not followed by the trainer.
The officer is now the subject of an internal investigation.
Sydney Airport Commander Wayne Buchhorn apologised for the breach but said at no time was there any risk to the public.
"The AFP takes this error seriously and the canine instructor who inadvertently left this device behind has been identified and will be the subject of a formal professional standards investigation," Commander Buchhorn said.
"This type of training is essential for our canine teams."
The AFP said training procedures would be reviewed.
The bungle comes as defence agencies prepare to possibly raise the nation's security level to high.
The AFP would not reveal which airline was involved in the incident.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1227055423826

[Rigger]

Useless dumb fuckers, wonder what his excuse is for not reporting lost explosives

[Rigger]

Isn't the AFP busy chasing all the 1% biker clubs in Thailand at the moment

[harrybarracuda]

Useless dumb fuckers, wonder what his excuse is for not reporting lost explosives

Er....

THE Australian Federal Police (AFP) did not know the suitcase and unarmed explosives were even missing until the NSW woman handed it over to police three weeks later.

I think what's important is how the feck did they not know they were missing?

[Rigger]

Useless dumb fuckers, wonder what his excuse is for not reporting lost explosives

Er....

THE Australian Federal Police (AFP) did not know the suitcase and unarmed explosives were even missing until the NSW woman handed it over to police three weeks later.

I think what's important is how the feck did they not know they were missing?

The explosive went missing during a dog training exercise, how do you loses what you are there to find, you don't place explosives in a airport and forget, of course they new it was missing.