@Brick_Cop@ukhomeoffice Many years ago, I commandeered a bus in Chester to get to an immediate call - it drove from south of the river to the city centre past every stop (I’m sorry to those passengers!) and the bus got me to the call to deal - thank you to all those that help the blue (and green & red)
@stuey_beef Is there an argument for an investigation into misconduct in public office for some of these decisions?
The machine of government should not be exempt from accountability for their decisions, actions or inactions!
@GretaTigress@ronpeace11@NormanBrennan There is no way he didn’t know it was a police officer after he had assaulted two female officers in the face then hit PC Matsden from behind.
Feared for his life? How many Police Officers have killed members of the public in the UK in such circumstances?
FLAWED JURY!!
@NormanBrennan@CPSUK@dorsetpolice No sanction to CPS for the failure to abide by CPIA for disclosure?
Any timescale for disclosure to be provided?
Seems shocking!
As we edge closer towards all Police Forces having to record traumatic incidents each Officer attends mandatorily; it’s important to realise how far gone we already are.
I was sent the below graph a few weeks before that announcement was made and it demonstrates in combat environments how rapidly soldiers’ effectiveness is eroded by constant trauma.
It also explains why frontline soldiers are rotated away from their ‘day job’ for that very reason.
Now huge disclaimer, no one is saying Police Officers experience the same traumas those in a war zone do. But they do experience constant traumatic incidents daily that the vast majority of society will possibly only experience maybe only once in a lifetime.
So what do we do about it?
Firstly - leaders need to have a conversation with the public, yes, the public; about how many Police Officers we have available to respond to 999 calls. Why? Well if you’re working six days on and you go to one traumatic call a shift, you’ve already beaten the lifetime average for a normal person in one week. We then expect that Police Officer to be rational and calm on and off duty and deal with all that trauma on their own on their days off and then come back ready to go again.
Now I could tell you what it’s like to burn out after years of doing that and how long and hard it is to drag yourself back to a job and a role that’s broken you, but that’s not the point right now.
The numbers on Response Teams are far too low to accommodate how much trauma those teams experience. That’s the fact.
Secondly, we are so focussed on ‘charter times’ that unlike the Ambulance Service, Fire Service, RNLI and Coastguard - instead of debriefing after each emergency, Police Officers are rushed on to the next one.
Why?
To keep Senior Officers happy with their ‘Charter Time’ stats.
Also as a side note - the main charter time that’s focussed on is Domestic Abuse, rightly so.
But when Policing is battered in the media about shoplifting and burglary responses, I never understand why Policing doesn’t push back and say ‘because we prioritise Domestic Abuse because there is a much higher risk of serious injury and death than there is at a shoplifting and we only have x numbers of Police Officers to answer 999 calls’. I think most reasonable people would accept that.
We are at the crest of a wave of finally realising how broken Police Officers are nationally.
If you’re a leader, it’s time to do something now, before the evidence makes you do it.
#ThinBlueLine 🚨
@RupertMyers Not that unusual - in a 3week trip around France using only public transport, only one train was late. I was told it would be delayed by 90mins and it was delayed by 90mins.
Every ticket had a seat allocated (except RNR trains).
It seems only British trains can’t tell the time!
@cleanupbritain@benonwine I know ‘enforcement’ isn’t the answer to everything, but a ‘lack of consequences’ has this consequence!!
Education won’t change this, but at a time when councils are struggling for money, fines to perpetrators could help fill their financial black hole
Just try SOMETHING at least