Sir Norman Bettison is Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police.
We in the service joined it because we wanted to be of assistance to people in a crisis. But the armchair perfection of the "health and safety Taliban" is intent on coming between us: creating doubt, where there was once certainty, over our mission; and demonstrating, post hoc, the chaos that surrounds all crises as evidence of a failure to plan and protect.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/opinion/Norman-Bettison-Our-police-officers.3450691.jp
2007-11-07 05:13:38 · 10 answers · asked by Fred3663 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I understand the predicament you find yourselves in. There is all too much interference in our lives by the health and safety Taliban as you so succinctly put it. My feelings are that in the main the police do a praiseworthy job. In the field when decisions have to made quickly sometimes mistakes are made. Unfortunately this is part of the difficult job you have. I don't think any human being with any compassion could stand back and watch while someone died if there was anything they could do about it. The individual should be able to make up their own mind on the basis of each event as it happens and they should not be treated like idiots with a rule book, or penalised for being human. just give them guidelines to help with their decisions
Once again its the lack of common sense in our lives that causes most of the problems
2007-11-07 08:33:48 · answer #1 · answered by trish 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree entirely. However you have only just fallen foul of the one organisation that has taken away the fun from Childhood. The, so called, health and safety was set up to stop accidents in factories and because they have succeeded there and have nothing better to do they are now becoming involved in areas where they were never intended to go. May be they can take the terrorists to court for endangering the public, that would be more useful.
2007-11-07 05:37:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Health and Safety people sum up life in modern day UK. Their namby pamby approach to everything beggars belief. We are not allowed to keep small ladders in our office to change light bulbs "in case we fall." Nurses are not allowed to lift patients, police officers can't jump into water to save a drowning person. What next? I'm sure we're only one step away from all buildings etc. employing a "socket operative." This will be a guy in a rubber suit and gloves who will be responsible for switching on all appliances at the start of each day!
2007-11-07 05:27:24 · answer #3 · answered by Ian M 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
i don't be responsive to. In united statesa. the police all have weapons, and that i don't think of something of it. until eventually they substitute into real law enforcement officers they are given crimson pepper spray - and we predict of this is almost humorous and make exciting of them. yet, I see the element with anybody then feeling the could arm themselves - different than that doesn't could be real in Britain. In united statesa., because of the fact of our 2d modification, specific States have lax gun rules allowing inner maximum electorate to hold. you're able to nonetheless have very strict controls over inner maximum armament. poor with reference to the crazies who shot those 2 women human beings -- how frightening for the officers to realize that they had no protection. this is the undesirable area, you ask cops to flow into circumstances the place you in no way be responsive to in case you will come across a loopy, yet whilst they do, what's their protection "No, please loopy individual, please act useful". that doesn't make experience the two.
2016-09-28 12:55:21 · answer #4 · answered by nembhard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, that's is the up-dated version of the HSG then is it ?
It used to be called the Health & Safety Gestapo but I guess these days most of the numpties around and about won't even know (or have heard of) the Gestapo!
Tsk, tsk - makes one wonder what they do all day in school!
2007-11-07 10:44:14 · answer #5 · answered by Tatsbabe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so go on strike!! stop taking it in the @rse all the time. to the British public there is no police force. calling the police is a waste of bloody time. because when you do finnaly turn up the whole thing is over and forgotten. if you want to be revenue collectors for the government FINE!! do it. but dont give us this (the police are on the side of the public bullsh*t) do the job you have!! and get the Hell away from our private lives and let us protect our selves. because clearly you are no bloody use as you are at all!! to ilustrate the bulshit that is health and safety....the army also!! work as public servants. wheres they're bloody health and safety officers then???
2007-11-07 05:30:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Hear what you say. Have a word with Sir Norman.
2007-11-07 05:17:29 · answer #7 · answered by poppy vox 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but the police are being attacked by ordinary Taliban supporters which we allowed to come here in massive numbers
2007-11-07 18:55:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am pretty sure my friend that you underestimate not only yourself / your force but the majority of the British public who are very proud of our police forces and rightly so.Anyone who disputes this, should not, be resident in this our land.and certainly not. born and bred. A Brit.
2007-11-07 05:26:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It amazes me why anyone listens to these 'elf n safety' tw*ts.
If ALL OF US told them where to go, we could as a country get on with things again.
2007-11-07 05:32:02 · answer #10 · answered by the boss 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋