Police Presence

The Aberdeen train station was teeming with police officers this morning.  There were at least six SUVs, a dozen  or so officers and even one canine.  I thought I had interrupted a major sting operation and was hoping I could regale my blog readers with a tale of intrigue today.  But alas, it is not to be.  As I began walking my morning laps and get a closer look at what was going on, one officer stopped me to hand me a card announcing the "See Something Say Something" campaign, encouraging people to report suspicious activity.  The card even contained "Seven Signs of Terrorism" to be on the look out for, including "elicitation, suspicious  persons out of place and deploying assets."  It was all very confusing because the very things I was supposed to report were the very things these police were guilty of.  I've never seen more than one officer at a time at the train station, and even that is a rare occurrence.  Today's officers were eliciting information about suspected terrorist activities and they had deployed a significant amount of assets to do it (did I mention the computer screens that appeared on the dashboards of the SUVs).  So I guess I need to say something.  I'm just not sure if anyone will take me seriously.  But the card reminded me to "report suspicious activity anytime or anywhere" because "if you think something is suspicious, it probably is."