It goes show that that all these institutions need watching at all times, as they keep proving they can't be trusted to follow the rules.
No one involved in the new service should even have had mermaids on a piece of paper as a potential choice of trainer. Yet they were about to have them in, training people.
I want to know how that happened?
It's Fucking ridiculous.
On the plus side that's another hole in mermaids finances. Oh dear never mind.