PEDODATA, if you made a call to BASI (ATSB?) anonymously or otherwise regarding aircraft security - you probably wasted a phone call. It has nothing to do with their office and in true public service fashion they probably would have shrugged it off. Dept of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Govt (formerly DOTARS), Office of Transport Security, are the people you want. Ph 1300 307288 24/7.
I think maggot might be closest to the correct answer as to how this occurred.
Police are not required to be screened in order to enter a sterile area. Whether there is a mechanism in place to check that the officer in question is entering the area in the line of duty as opposed to travelling as a passenger is something that probably has the powers that be scratching their heads at the moment.
If indeed Mr/Ms plod deliberately used their postion in order to evade compliance with the regulation regarding screening then there are some serious concerns here.
Regulation 4.10 Persons taken to be cleared at a screening point without being screened
For paragraph 41(2)(b) of the Act, the following persons may pass though a screening point without being screened:
(a) a law enforcement officer who produces his or her identity card as a law enforcement officer.
(b) screening officer.....
(c) an abulance, rescue or fire service officer......
(d) member of the Defence Force who is responding to an event......
In the meantime for the rest of us. Keep your ASIC displayed correctly, remove any and all items that can be construed by security nazis as being a threat to an aircraft, take off your shoes, belt, watch, wedding ring and whatever else as you go through screening to your aircraft. God forbid you could ever be in a positon to take control of an aircraft.
I know for a fact OTS people do browse these pages but as for them taking anything on board and making changes to the regs to reflect common sense and practicality - forget it! They have the govt and travelling public right where they want them - scared.