They either had no forest patrols or the patrols weren't following their schedules.
Fearing for the officer's safety, Coeur d'Alene police arranged patrols outside his house.
So serious is the disorder that police are conducting frequent patrols around the Bassingbourn base as residents of the nearby village fear more "escapes" and attacks.
For most of the afternoon before the show, the police were busy tearing down psychedelic fly-posters – "Blossom Toes, group Auglicki" – which, despite the armed patrols, had appeared in the city centre overnight.
Extra patrols, including armed officers, are patrolling the area to provide some reassurance to the community.
The office of the defence minister, Kevin Andrews, said Australia would "continue to transit the South China Sea" but emphasised that such patrols were not a new phenomenon and that the government had not had any formal discussions with its close ally, the US.
Even so, patrols in the red light district were not increased despite one of the 'regulars' mysteriously vanishing.
After oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man and an important political broker, came out in the past fortnight against the separatist movement, he also ordered his factories to provide unarmed worker patrols to ensure order in the city.
Boff has also suggested the establishment of "Canadian-style safe houses" and "citizen patrols" to lessen youth violence and anti-social street behaviour.
Money from fines is supposed to pay the patrols a per-diem income but they have received none to date.
It is also hard to catch and fine offenders, who enter the forest when they know the patrols are not around, or run away when they are.
