Yup - the "should we be doing this here" and "how and where should we do this" came after the fact, meaning they've probably been flagrantly violating written p

Yup - the "should we be doing this here" and "how and where should we do this" came after the fact, meaning they've probably been flagrantly violating written procedure for a long time; it's only now that they've been caught that the rules matter.