I’ve read the article and I still can’t quite understand what happened here.
Awful. Too early to speculate on the exact circumstances but the IOPC referral will raise some suspicions.
Edit: my assumption reading the article was that the prior contact with the police was separate from the roadside detention, I believe this to be an error now.
My understanding from reading the article is that police had contact with the deceased but (and this part is reading between the lines) had no grounds for arrest or detention in anyway so let her go and she has later come to harm.
Things like this are just really sad and I feel bad for the officers. Speaking from my own experience when I was suffering an “episode”, I, myself emailed the cops and said I could hear a voice in my head telling me to set myself on fire and I recognised the voice at the time so emailed them to report a crime (yes I was that messed up) and asked them to make the person stop. Police were out to me within minutes and they stayed with me for hours in my own house. Then we went to the local mental health hospital and waited many more hours for me to be assessed and they told the police I was fine to go home.
The police weren’t happy at all but there wasn’t much they could do as I hadn’t committed a crime and had been assessed as being ok mentally so they drive me home but kept telling me they weren’t happy and if I had anymore thoughts like that just call them.
The next day I was still having the voice in my head and I tried to burn down my own house. Thankfully I was ok and I was rescued but was then detained under the MHA for a long time due to having psychosis.
I’m not always a fan of the police but I feel for them in situations like this when it’s not them that let ppl down and they do their best but they’re restricted in what they can do.
RIP to the girl and I hope any officers involved don’t feel too guilty
Reminds me of the ‘Madness in the fast lane’
For anyone who doesn’t know.
A BBC camera crew are following motorway cops for a documentary and stop a pair of twins walking down the M6, who then throw themselves into traffic going past, multiple times and get hit.
One of the twins goes on to kill someone with a roof tile a few days after. It’s utter utter chaos.
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I’ve read the article and I still can’t quite understand what happened here.
Awful. Too early to speculate on the exact circumstances but the IOPC referral will raise some suspicions.
Edit: my assumption reading the article was that the prior contact with the police was separate from the roadside detention, I believe this to be an error now.
My understanding from reading the article is that police had contact with the deceased but (and this part is reading between the lines) had no grounds for arrest or detention in anyway so let her go and she has later come to harm.
Things like this are just really sad and I feel bad for the officers. Speaking from my own experience when I was suffering an “episode”, I, myself emailed the cops and said I could hear a voice in my head telling me to set myself on fire and I recognised the voice at the time so emailed them to report a crime (yes I was that messed up) and asked them to make the person stop. Police were out to me within minutes and they stayed with me for hours in my own house. Then we went to the local mental health hospital and waited many more hours for me to be assessed and they told the police I was fine to go home.
The police weren’t happy at all but there wasn’t much they could do as I hadn’t committed a crime and had been assessed as being ok mentally so they drive me home but kept telling me they weren’t happy and if I had anymore thoughts like that just call them.
The next day I was still having the voice in my head and I tried to burn down my own house. Thankfully I was ok and I was rescued but was then detained under the MHA for a long time due to having psychosis.
I’m not always a fan of the police but I feel for them in situations like this when it’s not them that let ppl down and they do their best but they’re restricted in what they can do.
RIP to the girl and I hope any officers involved don’t feel too guilty
Reminds me of the ‘Madness in the fast lane’
For anyone who doesn’t know.
A BBC camera crew are following motorway cops for a documentary and stop a pair of twins walking down the M6, who then throw themselves into traffic going past, multiple times and get hit.
One of the twins goes on to kill someone with a roof tile a few days after. It’s utter utter chaos.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2g53sc
>the girl was being transported to custody in a police vehicle and had got out of the vehicle shortly before the collision
So in other words, the police officer forgot to put the child locks on.
I’m confused. How could she open the door from inside a police car? Thought you couldn’t do that
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