Security officer on the roof of the Sydney Opera House one of the snipers among the thousands of security officers deployed.
Apec security leaves bitter taste in Sydney
The normally good-humoured head of TTF Australia, a powerful tourism and transport lobby group which had lent strong support to Sydney's hosting of the 21 Pacific Rim leaders, like many, is incensed by what he regards as the needlessly aggressive and restrictive policing.
It carried a heftier security price tag than the 16-day-long 2000 Olympics and led to the construction of the 5km "great wall of Sydney".
"I'm so embarrassed and annoyed. Where was the sense of proportion? We replaced Olympic volunteers with riot squads," he says.
"Somebody in the security operation got very carried away with their own self-importance, and nobody in the state or federal government counterbalanced them.
"It was totally and utterly disproportionate."
[BBC]
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