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At least five were field officers, according to the county’s employee database, some of whom said they had little training on breaking up fights.

Medgar Evers will receive posthumous recognition for his work more than six decades ago fighting segregation in Mississippi in the 1960s as the NAACP’s first field officer in the state.

For weeks, the indictment alleges, Mr Gupta tracked and monitored Mr Pannun, following orders from the Indian government employee - who described himself in communications as a "senior field officer" with training in "battle craft".

"He's almost like a dog in behaviour, so we want to maintain his life of being a happy, social pig," said Augusta Allen, a field officer with Aurora Animal Services,

In a 2011 policy memo, field officers were reminded to exercise discretion in these cases to avoid causing “significant disruption to the normal operations of the sensitive location.”