Sgt Ellery will become part of a back-up team that supports officers guarding all the royals.

All 37 protestors are adults and a dog unit attended to support officers.

Mr Johnson has promised deep cuts in bureaucracy at mayoral headquarters, saying he will use the savings to pay for more police support officers.

They also attend the scenes of unexplained deaths to support officers by identifying possible causes of death and advising on scene preservation and the recovery of the deceased.

While Australian police services and law enforcement agencies need and want better information systems to support officers on the beat, they do not wish these systems to necessarily replace their existing systems.

This included receiving aid from other forces and using armoured vehicles to support officers on the ground to clear areas of trouble.

The Government of President Vinicio Cerezo appears to have survived the coup principally because the army high command did not support mutinous younger officers.

That failure to support officers in the field had been the real reason for his retirement.

Mr. Uribe's father was killed by guerrillas, and he has strongly supported military officers investigated for links to the paramilitaries.

During the second Chechen War, the RNU supported Russian officers accused of crimes in Chechnya.