Your job is important but, so are your workouts, your lunch breaks, vacation days, hobbies, the people waiting for you when you get home.
Works pays for your life. It isn't supposed to replace it.
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I find it heartbreaking a police force has to post this kind of statement.
Two nights ago I attended the #policebravery awards where I heard some extraordinary stories about our police going out there and placing themselves in danger to save others.
Yet, after all that, some people still feel it’s acceptable to sit behind their keyboards and spout contempt and evil at the very people they would need if they ever found themselves in the same predicament the officers from Bedfordshire Police have been facing.
I wish they would just take a moment and THINK about what they’re writing. They conveniently forget behind every uniform is a person, with feelings just like you and I. With families who might read that drivel about their loved ones, just like you and I.
Yes, I absolutely know there is the very odd officer who perhaps should not be working in law enforcement, but 99.999% of our police officers are amazing - just amazing and when they see negativity online they feel it too - just like they have felt for the family who have been murdered. Just like they feel for the family of Anne Widdecombe after the tragic news yesterday.
What is happening to our world where we have a society who jumps on the anti-police bandwagon, and attacks the very people who will, without hesitation, be there when they have their worst day?
It’s a pile on they could really do without. Let them do their job and let them do it in peace, and with our support - not the judgemental unkindness which seems to the norm.
Before anyone posts, they should themselves this:
1. Would I say this to the persons face?
2. Am I in position of knowing what really happened?
3. Would I be happy if someone said this about a member of my family or a friend.
4. Do I have the authority to pass judgement?
5. Would I enjoy it if someone said that to me?
If the answer to any of those questions is no - then scroll on.
Words have consequences.
Did you know suicide remains one of the leading causes of death among working-age police officers?
Do we on social media want to be part of that problem?
Would one of these so-called smart comments be the thing that sends a police officer over the edge?
Please be kind - and please be especially kind to our police officers, they see and hear and have to deal with the sorts of things that would give you and I nightmares.
I see what these remarkable people do, every day. I know what they go through every day.
I wish there was just a little more respect.
As you were…
While dealing with such an unimaginably tragic case and working 24/7 to secure an arrest, our Senior Investigating Officer has also had to deal with hundreds of negative comments on social media about his appearance. This isn’t acceptable. Police officers are humans too.
UK police have at least 14.8 million interactions with the public each year and yet they get judged on a handful of videos because people can’t imagine anything occurs if it is not on social media and good work doesn’t make headlines.