Obsession with the the spun twsited yarns....
Would not say we have any more or less accidents than the average. Most of the ones reently reported in the national press have involved young drunken pedestrians as well.
IanH wrote:
The entire policy of removing lights and sirens is ridiculous.
Agree!
Yet .. in the aforementioned press articles, which have appeared in the press off and on over the past year - not one of the drunken persons who stepped into the path of the police cars apparently heard or noticed the blue flashing lights, flashing headlamps and sirens....
Must be the effects of too much booze in these cases.
Shudder to think what will happen if we do not use them either...
As Ian points out - there are rules as to use anyway.
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If we have a Polacc problem then we need more training, probably more 'psychological' than 'motor' to reduce 'red mist' which can occur when attempts to resolve a problem outweigh any consideration of the method of resolution.
Trouble is .. costs money and dumbing down and cutting training is one way of saving money.
The fools don't realise that the penny pinching will actually push up costs later on - in the NHS when more accidents occur - and when they have to invest heavily in training to correct the current damage.
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this is a ridiculously short sighted P.C. move which I believe will be doomed to fail. I hope it doesn't cost too many lives in the process.
I hope it turns out to be a bad joke or inaccurate journalism.
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