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Comment on Old Dog - New Tricks by ThereandBack

ThereandBack — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:04:49 +0000

Thanks Gadget for all your support. I am feeling genuinely touched tonight by everyone’s comments.

By the way, I have preordered your book on Amazon (a few weeks back now) and can’t wait until it’s released. Been enjoying your blog for ages now and seem to have caught the ‘blogging bug’.

Comment on Old Dog - New Tricks by Louise

Louise — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:03:57 +0000

Thank you Gadget, it is wonderfully refreshing to find these alternative points of view.

I have always tried to have an open mind and to be sympathetic and understanding with the mental health patients I deal with. Unfortunately I frequently work with people who do not share this view and feel ambulances would be employed better elsewhere.

I think the majority of the MH patients I deal with are in genuine need and that the ambulance service needs to catch up with this and deal with it accordingly.

I would also like to say I am glad she brought to peoples attention the good job the police service do. We would be lost without you guys and not enough people realise this.

Comment on Old Dog - New Tricks by Amy Barnes

Amy Barnes — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:03:58 +0000

As an Inspector with 28years in, it was rather a surreal experience when my 70yr old father called me in a panic, saying my mother had flipped. On arrival she was completley mad. She did not recognise me and kept repeating the same phrases. None of this was expected or foreseen. I recall having to forcibly restrain my mother and drive her to the mental hospital where she was sectioned. After a month she was out and back to her normal self?!

This experience has stuck with me when dealing with MH persons as it seems possible to strike anyone.

A most sobering experience, which has opened my eyes to the issues others face.

Comment on Old Dog - New Tricks by Stocking

Stocking — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:51:43 +0000

It is so important for more people to understand depression and mental health issues. She has written this brilliantly and it shows just how good the Police can be.
You don’t join the Police for a laugh, you join because you want to help make a difference. It sounds as though in this case they really have.
x

Comment on There’s a ‘Ten Thirty One’ in The Swamp by Good policing or showing ‘citizen focus’? « Musings from a Stonehead

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:51:43 +0000

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Comment on There’s a ‘Ten Thirty One’ in The Swamp by happypig

happypig — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:16:26 +0000

luckily we have an adjoining force…. we follow for 40 mins up and down the motorway hoping they will cross the border.
2 mins into that force area…. car t-pac’ed baddies detained, job done, while our force control room wring their hands shouting that we are not to cross the county border….
nice
( a big thankyou to S*rrey Police for arresting our baddies over and over again)

Comment on There’s a ‘Ten Thirty One’ in The Swamp by pc@44

pc@44 — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:30:14 +0000

the trouble is with calling off a pursuit-sorry, a follow-when there are ‘no substantive offences’ or ‘it’s just a stolen car’…you don’t know why they are FTS. It wasn’t that long ago that a car fts in TVP and a kidnapped child from Wales was found on board. Suppose that had been called off? Obviously some will be too dangerous to continue,but that should be the decision of the following-trained-driver.

Comment on Rave On….. I think….. Or Maybe Not! Who knows? by Bob

Bob — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:16:20 +0000

Grego, unlike the police service who has many.

Comment on There’s a ‘Ten Thirty One’ in The Swamp by Bob

Bob — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:10:38 +0000

IG for this moment in time I’m the public and believe that you are fantastic. Now stick that in you personal file. Whoever thought that policing would be hijacked by new labour bullshit.

Comment on There’s a ‘Ten Thirty One’ in The Swamp by Big Jack

Big Jack — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:38:41 +0000

I remember a few years ago when I was in a marked car watching a stolen motorbike ahead of me driving on the pavement at around 45 miles an hour. It was passing young kids and the entrances to houses. I was absolutely adamant he was about to kill someone.
The rider didn’t realise I was behind him and I closed the distance but waited to see what he did next. He did a quick turn to his right and started coming down the pavement on the opposite side of the road albeit now in my direction. Now he was looking over his shoulder at a group of chavs and laughing his arse off. As he accelerated towards kids on the pavement (but not fast as before) I swung my car on to the lowered kerb and parked up. Nice and legal. Had he been looking my way, he could have slowed and with the steep kerb, would have had to try and dump the bike as there was not enough space or time to turn. Instead, he carried on waving at his mates and giving them the rods, turning his head only at the last second to see the nearside of my car looming. A skid on to the side of the bike followed. It was beautiful.
No helmet, topless and a shoddy rider = pain.
And there was no problem whatsoever when I explained my actions to supervisory who came to see the dent in the side of the car.
I don’t advocate for one second that my style of ending a pursuit becomes the recommended way but I’d rather the kerb be marked with his blood instead of some poor bastard on his way to pick up the kids.