From Ray Leister
In the 31 July Feedback you pass on the information that the mascot of the
Australian Federal Police is the platypus.
As editor of the first two issues of the force’s in-house publication I,
together with the then police commissioner, Colin Woods, and his director of
information, coined the name “Platypus” which was copyright registered to the
AFP.
Platypus is broadly translated from the Greek platus, meaning broad,
wide, flat, and pous, meaning foot, forming the term of endearment
given to English police, “Flatfoot”.
Ray_Leister@mdtrout.mdbc. gov.au
