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A man has been sacked after he picked Julie Bishop out for a body scan
The Foreign Minister underwent the extra security scan and was 'pat down'
She maintains she did not make an official complaint
Three other Melbourne Airport security personnel have been suspended
A man has been sacked after it was found he deliberately targeted Foreign Minister Julie Bishop for a 'random' body scan, and 'pat down' at an airport last year.
The incident occurred on October 8 at Melbourne Airport as Bishop prepared to fly to Los Angeles, three other airport security members have been suspended over the incident the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Bishop maintains she didn't make an 'official' complaint about the issue.
Bishop says she didn't make a complaint - however correspondence between federal bureaucrats suggest something was said about the incident
'I didn't complain, but airport authorities found that I had been inappropriately targeted and treated inappropriately,' Ms Bishop told ABC program Insiders.
'There was an investigation into it and it was found that there were breaches of security protocols and that I was given, let me put it this way, an inappropriate amount of attention,' she said.
Correspondence between federal bureaucrats states Bishop did complain, but it does not specifically state the complaint was made in an official capacity.
'Just a heads up that the Foreign Minister had a bad experience through screening point in Melbourne recently and complained to DPMO,' Sachi Wimmer Office of Transport Security's executive director wrote in an email to the department.
The email mentioned a 'security guard insisted in patting her down'.
Ms Bishop received an apology from an airport executive whore viewed CCTV footage of the incident describing it as 'not pleasant'.
An investigation found the man who was fired had picked Bishop from a crowd and told a colleague to include her in the 'random' check
A button on the minister's jacket set the scanner off - she removed the jacket so it could be scanned - but security insisted on a 'pat-down'.
When the shift changed the man who was sacked, and who had told his colleague to pick the minister for the scan, continued to work on the station near Bishop.
'In the course of being scanned a staffing change occurred and the lane swapped. This led to the Foreign Minister's belongings (including her shoes) to be not where she was and she was left without her belongings (and her shoes) for over a minute after the scanning was complete,' Department of Infrastructure director Cathy Murphy told colleagues in an email going on to describe the expression on Bishop's face at the time as 'unhappy'.
A spokeswoman from Bishop's office has admitted she has not been given an 'inappropriate level of attention' before or since the incident.
'The Foreign Minister has passed through security at Australian international airports more than 50 times in years, and through domestic airports many hundreds of times in recent years. This is the only incident.'
When the shift changed the sacked employee allegedly lingered near Bishop (pictured here with former Treasurer Joe Hockey) instead of moving to his next station
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