(Sydney Morning Herald) The NSW Police Force has been ordered to publish an apology and implement racial vilification training for senior officers after a tribunal found a police training exercise in October 2017 racially vilified Palestinians and Arabs and portrayed them as potential terrorists.
The training, dubbed “Exercise Pantograph,” featured hundreds of police and other emergency services personnel descending on Sydney’s Central Station on October 17 and 18 as though they were responding to a terrorist event or other high-risk incident.
As part of the exercise, two officers pretending to be “active armed offenders” wore checkered headscarves as they boarded a train, simulated stabbing and shooting people, held hostages, then tried to escape before being caught by police.
