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(11-19-2020, 02:19 AM)Professer E link Wrote:Problems originating from a quarantine facility... Is that the SA premier's fault?
Turns out some f-wit lied to contact tracers about his movements causing the lockdown which is being removed on Sunday.
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(11-19-2020, 02:23 AM)LP link Wrote:But they used the army? :o
Private security.
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(11-20-2020, 07:37 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:Private security.
How can that be? :
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(11-22-2020, 01:06 AM)LP link Wrote:How can that be? :
The guy that lied was a private security guard working hotel quarantine and a pizza shop.
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I think LP had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, alluding to the outrage over Victoria going with private security.
In reality, there was nothing surprising about governments using private security. Perhaps police might have been better suited but they have political power and were never likely to accept the responsibility. Governments know that ordering police to do something they don’t want to do would result in the Police Association mobilising members to actively campaign against the government. And there are over 21,000 of them. Prison guards and nurses would probably be either too brutal or not brutal enough and are needed in their day jobs. Soldiers are hardly trained for this responsibility, especially where the powers over quarantined people are a bit unclear. But would troops come with strings attached: e.g. if you don’t open up schools & businesses right now, we’ll pull out the troops?
When State Governments have been stripped down to eliminate excess capacity, the neo-conservative model dictates that governments need to rely on pivate enterprise to fill the gaps.
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I would have thought that Protective Services officers (Guarda Civilia) would have been suited to the task.
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Weren’t they busy protecting stuff? It’s not like there’s a crowd of them waiting in a car park for a pick-up truck to pull up and for the driver to say he wants 5 guys to hop into the back.
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Was this option and ways to make it work seriously considered? Just curious.
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The option of reassigning police was considered. The Pol. Commissioner said they didn’t want to be on the first line of guards but would be the 2nd line, i.e. if someone ran away from a quarantine facility, they’d go after them.
The problem with reassigning people, whether it be police, prison officers, nurses or PSOs is that guarding quarantine facilities isn’t in their job descriptions. You can ask them nicely, but they can say no. Just as well, otherwise the Federal Government could transfer public servants and federal police to the infantry rather than bothering with conscription.
