Austrian police face investigation after escorting fake Jeff Bezos
If Jeff Bezos had turned up at your company’s biggest celebration of the year, you would probably know about it. […]
Austrian police face an internal investigation following an incident where a man dressed as Jeff Bezos, accompanied by three armed police officers, appeared at a major company celebration in Micheldorf, Upper Austria. The man was a professional impersonator hired for the event, which was organized by Austrian tool manufacturer Haidlmair to celebrate a significant Amazon contract.
The presence of real police officers prompted an inquiry from Austria’s Federal Bureau for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption (BAK). The event, held in August, included live music, a motocross display, and a roast pig, but the arrival of the impersonator and armed police officers caused confusion among guests. The police officers involved belong to the Upper Austrian Schnelle Interventionsgruppe (SIG), a specialist rapid intervention unit, but their role in this situation has raised questions about their suitability for personal protection duties, as they do not have specific training in this area.
The incident has also sparked debate over whether the SIG was the appropriate unit for the task, given that person protection typically falls to state security authorities and the Cobra special operations unit.
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