@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
@lionrose.7 wrote:Bought in Australia at the market !!!!!
Better get the police to raid all the markets and get those plastic swords.
Not to mention the light sabres and water pistols
WALID SABONE: Thank you. The Muslim community is still perplexed on the police raid of 20 Muslim homes. There were allegations of unnecessary force by the police, allegations that some of the suspects did not know each other and the police went to all this trouble and only achieved one arrest and seized one plastic sword. How did the police get it so wrong and what measures have the police undertaken to ensure that this doesn't happen ever again?
NEIL GAUGHAN - Federal police Assistant Commissioner:
Look, the first instance is, that’s most important, is an issue of public safety and the reason why those warrants were executed is we had credible information to suggest that a terrorist attack was imminent and we took the appropriate course of action and we have no apologies for that. That was done in consultation with the New South Wales police. It was not a plastic sword that was seized. I will get that very clear.
TONY JONES: What was it?
NEIL GAUGHAN: It was a legitimate sword that was seized. It wasn’t plastic. It was taken because it was a weapon and therefore we took it. The number of police used has also been criticised. Again, we make no apologies for that. For us it’s an issue of officer safety and when you take into consideration the type of resources we used, we believe, as does the New South Wales police, that those resources were appropriate. What we will see now is more raids like we saw in Sydney because the environment has changed. The paradigm has changed such that we will be forced to react much quicker than what we previously have and I think that the community will see more of this where we’ll do a large number of execution of search warrants and probably only one or two arrests.
q and a
i didn't believe the fed police would
confiscate a plastic sword.
