That was not an official decision from the top. Every organization is made of humans, and thus prone to acts nobody could predict. It'd still be far easier for the ministers to tell the public that an employee simply couldn't watch a little kid being persecuted than to tell the official stance is to rescue people randomly based on the personal preferences of the employees present. So, the official stance is to take no action (not rescue anybody arbitrarily). Every action conflicting with that is due to human error.