Starting to think these so called “good officers” could be counted on one hand. Seems there are certainly a lot of scumbags in the police and a fuck load of enablers or cowards who won’t speak up.
At the risk of being labelled an apologist, compassion fatigue within the emergency services is absolutely endemic. In my experience, you are absolutely run off your feet every single shift with very little downtime, support from management, or understanding from the general public. I’m wary of making harsh judgements purely on the basis of someone making an offhand comment to a colleague which wasn’t actually communicated to that family – quite simply, if the general public knew what conversations happen routinely, I’m sure they’d be filled with righteous horror and indignation. The other side of that coin is that while for someone calling 999 it is possibly the worst day of their life, for responders it is just one more job amongst a sea of jobs, every day. That leads to desensitisation, and depersonalisation.
NB I am not a member of the police, I work for another service.
This is tragic – but police do infact deal with a very large proportion of people who “take the piss” on a daily basis.
It sounds like this girl needed to be taken to a hospital first and foremost.
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Another one of those bad apples
Starting to think these so called “good officers” could be counted on one hand. Seems there are certainly a lot of scumbags in the police and a fuck load of enablers or cowards who won’t speak up.
At the risk of being labelled an apologist, compassion fatigue within the emergency services is absolutely endemic. In my experience, you are absolutely run off your feet every single shift with very little downtime, support from management, or understanding from the general public. I’m wary of making harsh judgements purely on the basis of someone making an offhand comment to a colleague which wasn’t actually communicated to that family – quite simply, if the general public knew what conversations happen routinely, I’m sure they’d be filled with righteous horror and indignation. The other side of that coin is that while for someone calling 999 it is possibly the worst day of their life, for responders it is just one more job amongst a sea of jobs, every day. That leads to desensitisation, and depersonalisation.
NB I am not a member of the police, I work for another service.
This is tragic – but police do infact deal with a very large proportion of people who “take the piss” on a daily basis.
It sounds like this girl needed to be taken to a hospital first and foremost.