Hey Screwballs,
However, when faced with dispruptive passengers in Italy the local or airport police seem to go out of their way to not offload the passengers. I have had a dispatcher tell me that the police forced them to board a violent passenger. Can that be legal? Surely no-one can tell you to take a drunk/violence/terrorist onboard?
What can you do to offload disruptive passengers in Italy? Where do you legally stand? I am aware of the form that you should give to the police but I've seen police laugh at that.
The police is not entitled to argue on your decisions. As a commander you are in charge for the safety of the airplane and its occupants as the air law prescribes. If a passenger is reported to be unruly or disruptive, you act just like if you were in the uk, yellow card first, then if he goes on, he's off. Honestly never had any problems when offloading unruly passengers in Italy.