Being a police officer myself i have no problem with wearing a camera on me nor do i have a problem with people recording me so long as it does not cause problems for me such as if a need to arrest the person for something and they refuse to put the camera down. Would anyone have an idea on how to arrest someone if the refuse to put it down. Second i find it highly disturbing what some police officers are doing now days and i fill that a rage test should be mandatory for any police officers joining the force. Because i dont think some cops can handle stressful situations.
Hi..... again
Yes..... :yes:
The trouble is.... that the various causes of 'wrong reactions' are so huge.
Let me snatch one situation out of hundreds.... and hundreds....
During the 90's a tiny female colleague of mine got badly hurt, taking on a whole gang of shopthieves all by herself. She recovered. Some months later, running to help her, I saw this massive 17 stone bloke legging it towards me, clutching a terylene bag, and with my tiny female colleague, all 7.5 stone of her, riding on his back, with her arms around his neck and head. He was trying to run and throw her off. She kept throwing her weight to his right, again and again, as he ran, ....... and then she threw her weight to the left... and the whole edifice just came crashing down to the ground with my tiny colleague scrambling on top of this bloke, shouting 'I'm afraid I'm going to have to arrest you for theft today, mate'. (today!!!!
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When it was all over, Police Station, Statements, blah blah... I decided it would be beneficial to buy her a coffee and ask her about all this. All I said was 'What's all this, then? Another crazy day?'
Do you know what she said? She said 'Well, I get these bloody bad periods, and all I wanna do is........ '
After that I started to take interest in our female ops' injuries and their menstrual cycles, and guess what...... about 15% of the female ops had increased 'difficult situations' during their menstrual cycles.
One type of situation in hundreds...... and hundreds
Stress, Tension, Family probs, illness, Sprains and pains, debt problems, the bloody electric bill, blah blah....all impact on the demeanour and mindset of ops and only good training, good management, good support and good backup can help to balance ops, and if absolutely necessary identify those in legal or physical danger and take them off field work for rest and recuperation if possible. Lots of ifs.... I'm afraid.
